FAMILY fishing trips don’t come much better than Simeon Didsley’s recent outing, during which this 30lb pike was hooked by his nine-year-old daughter, played by himself, and then netted by his wife!
The trio were biteless after several hours of fishing on a stretch of their local River Glen, but that all changed when Simeon’s daughter Eliza picked up the rod.
Simeon said:
“Suddenly she stopped and told me it was stuck on something. Thinking she was snagged, I took the rod off her, assuming that she’d hooked the bottom…. but then the bottom started moving!”
After a 15-minute fight, Simeon’s wife Fleur netted the huge pike, before he weighed the fish in a state of shock.
“It went somewhere between 31lb and 32lb. Of course, Eliza is claiming it as her own!” said Simeon.