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  • Danny T.

  • And has been fishing on lock dirt since he was a kid.

  • How's the weather working just like generations of his family before him?

  • It was a long time ago, but he still remembers that momentous day 20 minutes, once in a lifetime catch, weighing almost £38.

  • So he called that fish on a on a couple sport hopper school traces that he met Our wire.

  • There's no such thing as Flora Caravan or anything like that, but you stole the actual fish.

  • I seem deficient.

  • That speaks when I've ever seen that there has been a bigger ones compared with an average sized pike.

  • Danny's father caught a Goliath, but his fish would be dwarfed by the £90 pike that were allegedly found in these waters.

  • It's one of those giants that I'm here for.

  • Do you control the rpm?

  • Normally on those bodies, Danny's father called his fish, using the method known as trolling, where lures are pulled through the water behind a moving boat.

  • Even travelling at this speed, Pike will have no trouble chasing down and attacking my lure.

  • A lot of things to pay attention, Thio one is speed one is the death.

  • Why don't want to do is run into ward, and suddenly it's too shallow.

  • I risk hanging up my Louis on the bottom and losing them.

  • I'm also alert to one of these rods, suddenly just bending round, and that will be that will be officially one of those.

  • Louis Pike are formidable predators.

  • They're sensitive.

  • Lateral line organ picks up even the faintest vibrations in the water.

  • Special grooves in front of their eyes work like rifle sights, enabling them to judge distances on zero in on fast moving prey.

  • There's a lot of structure down there, which could be weed beds.

  • I think some of it could be rocks.

  • There's little sign the signs of water, probably small fish as well.

  • It really is a perfect spot.

  • My monster hunting career has taken me around the world.

  • But this challenge is different in many senses.

  • This investigation is it's a lot more personal.

  • It's the fish that sort of launched me, I suppose, on my big fish career.

  • That was the first big fish like holes little backwater off the Author River store in Suffolk, southeast England.

  • I started fishing when I was about seven years old.

  • But for the first few years, even the thought of catching up like terrified me.

  • Then one day when I was about 13 I convinced myself I was ready to fish for a pike.

  • The river store was less than a mile from my house.

  • I've heard that were big fishing.

  • I chose a small pool connected to the main river channel with lots of weed.

  • Perfect cover point to lie in white on each caste.

  • I held my breath.

  • The strike was so powerful, I knew it could only be one thing.

  • It's almost sending a shiver up my spine.

  • I could almost feel the presence of that fish.

  • It's almost instinctive fear you get when you when you look at it, there's just something about looking in the face of a pint for the first time.

  • I mean, that was That was an amazing day for me.

  • Ah, half a century has passed, but getting back on the trail has reignited my childhood obsession.

  • Only this time I'm after something a lot bigger.

  • Yes, thatwas within a couple of minutes of putting the little hat.

  • Very good.

  • Oh, yes.

  • Here we go.

  • Not a giant, but a good start.

  • How about that?

  • There we go.

  • Lock dirt bike.

  • That's my first Irish pike of any descriptions.

  • That's that's quite amazing.

  • That's, uh, but a seven or £8 fish.

  • Something like that.

  • Quite something to catch something on this water, though.

  • I mean, that is such an expensive water.

  • I wasn't really expecting Great deal.

  • The biggest pike ever found here was said to be 10 times this.

  • Wait.

  • So I've got some work to do.

  • Lots to see that swim off strongly to grow bigger, potentially to grow into something really big at this time of year.

  • When the water is cold, Big Pike follow their prey down into the deaths.

  • So I target older, deep areas.

  • I confined.

  • But after that promising start, six hours passed without a single take to improve my chances of catching a monster pike in this lot, I could do with some more information.

  • I've arranged to meet the scientist who carried out the recent research on the Lakes Pike Population Professor Stefano Mariani is the lab where we can talk on essentially D n.

  • A change is Professor Mariani and his team spent three years sampling pike DNA in Lakdar GE.

  • The first thing we found, which was definitely what we didn't expect, was the fact that not all Irish pike what's conforming to the same type of group.

  • There were two genetic units of Pike significantly, the Virgin from one another.

  • It turns out, the pike that arrived here from mainland Europe 10,000 years ago evolved into something quite different from all other pike.

  • But frustratingly, Stefano also reveals that those super sized pike that were once here have almost certainly bean wiped out.

  • Pike were deliberately killed because they were believed to be a really serious threat to the populations of trout and salmon.

  • And there is a well established notion in Ireland that Pike is an invasive species.

  • So basically we're talking.

  • Just a few years ago, a pike were being basic, basically netted and killed.

  • Absolutely, this species has consistently, for a long time being considered a villain, so genetically unique giants that evolved over 10,000 years were practically wiped out in less than 50.

  • But Stefano agrees that the conditions that created these monster pike could have happened in other places.

  • To my bet, would be areas that are undisturbed or relatively undisturbed and areas similar to what Island Waas and that could harbor groups of bikes that have been isolated for a long time from any of the pike.

Danny T.

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