LLANDEGFEDD 1988 - 1G9F9E2DD PIKE REVOLUTION 1988 - - 1992

TROUT reservoir pike fishing is big business today, but back in the late 1980s the phenomenon got underway with a series of pike fishing trials on Welsh trout water Llandegfedd.

Countless 30lb fish were caught and Welsh rugby legend Gareth Edwards set a new British best with a 45lb 6oz fish in 1989, beaten a few years later by Roy Lewis’ 46lb 13oz pike in 1992, a best that still stands today.

Roy was just 15 minutes into his first day on the reservoir when the massive pike took his lure fished from a boat. The pike had to be weighed on a set of scales procured by a local farmer, and delivered to the bankside in a JCB!