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I’ve fished in some cold weather but this was just ridiculous…
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This is what happened to my short baitcaster rod while pike fishing at Bardney Lock a few days before Christmas.  After noticing what was happening I put my rod down and tried to remove some of the ice build up from the end eye.  The ice was very crisp and solid and I couldn’t remove it without using considerable force and risking damaging the eye.  By this time the line had frozen solid through every eye on the rod except the butt eye.

It took two hours for my rod to thaw out!

You wouldn’t mind freezing your b*ll*cks off for a nice double figure personal best Pike, but we didn’t catch a bean.  I tell a lie, this is probably when I caught the flu that laid me up for most of Christmas!