James leaned forward across the table, his ample fist wrapped around the jam jar that served as a wine glass. “Lookie here,” he said with an air of finality, “there’s not a trout stirring in this cold, the rivers are far too low for salmon, and you might as well cast into the bathtub as into the sea, for the boats have the ocean scoured. There’s only one hope for a right fish of any sort, and that’s to go for a pike. The females are fat and heavy with spawn and the Jacks will bite at anything…
The Mayo News, 02/04/13. Read the full article ‘Time to strike for a record pike‘.
