The day was cool and cloudy, and they were fishing a small lake in Cavan, which was swollen from recent rain and heavily coloured. For several hours, her grandfather worked their boat along the shallows while she tried to tempt the pike with poppers and a pink floating frog, but the only sign of fish was tight to the margins, and he struggled to row over stubble and through masses of broken reed stems in the midst of a strong breeze.
But perseverance from both Evie and grandad eventually paid off as, in the late afternoon, the pike seized her Savage Gear roach, which they had been trolling in open water about 7 feet deep. Evie brought the fish to the boat for a quick photo before returning it back safely to the water. The tip of one fingernail was damaged during the battle with the big fish, but colour was fully restored (to match the other fingernails) during the three-hour journey home.
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