First time lucky – Kirsts first pike

Well Last night I took the better half fishing for pike. She’s not big into fishing but she gives it a try every so often.  We went out for a couple hours to a local water, cast out a nice roach dead-bait and set the alarms. While she was watching the rods I set about cleaning out the van as it had been used as a refuge for the last 3 days while I was away for the weekend fishing.  She must have had the rod cast out for 10mins at the most when she got a take.  I had already prepared her as to what to do when and if a pike took the bait, she did a good job with the rod and proceeded to steadily (amateurishly * Needs more training 🙂 ) bring in her first pike.  I netted the fish for her and we safely unhooked it and weighed it at just over 9lbs (talk about first time lucky, I think my first fish was about 6lbs and I had to go out at least 3 times before I hooked into a fish).    I was buzzing for her and got her to hold the pike while I got some snaps.  After a couple quick snaps the pike went back into the water swimming away strongly.