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Well stay off the Northern Pike board. I for one love fishing Pike. Nothing beats fighting a 20 lber and seeing it flash at the hole. My biggest was caught on a steel leader with beads and red and white willow blade 12" above the bait.
never said I didn't like fishing for pike, all I said was they were trash fish meaning they will hit just about anything and they are one of the easiest fish to catch. Plus they destroy ecosystems.
ROTFLMAO, just nonsense The Great Northern Pike are top dog thats the bottom line, Northerns keep a lot of lakes in check.. Most of your best perch and crappie lakes have Northerns in them.... Without the pike everyone would be complaining of stunted perch and other pannies that are highly sought after....Considering pike have extremely good eyesight ill take wild guess that any pike previously experiencing be yanked through the ice after trying to eat something with a big black metal wire hanging off it will probably commit it to some kind of danger memory, i mean i do alot of brown trout fishing and i can say unequivocaly they can be extremely line shy and they are know to have great eyesight...
I like fishing pike lakes that have trout in them. Trout make big hungry pike happy.
I was talking about fish that take some skill to catch like salmon, native Brookies, and touge.
So apparently catching big pike takes no skill???
We all know Mainers have a profound hatred for northerns, but please go back to your Maine or Trout forum, and stop trash talkin a fish many of us on this forum love. I don't go over to your fav forums and trash talk, so don't do it over here.
Your instigating, and it isn't appreciated. Started off as an inforative thread, and is turning into another BS thread with your comments.
yes, that is correctI mean obviously every thing takes some skill but compared to other fish there is very little skill involved to catch pike.
So completely untrue, pike spread out in a lake, ( llsalmon) which i have spent a lot of time fishing for, tend to congregate or stack,many times ive almost felt bad targeting them because they were so easy to target, brook trout ill give ya that they can be a tough nut to crack...Any way my point to that comment is when you have to target a wider scope of water how is that easier?
Quote from: ice cracker on Feb 01, 2013, 09:45 AMyes, that is correctI mean obviously every thing takes some skill but compared to other fish there is very little skill involved to catch pike.
me and my brother caught 4 in 3 hours on live shiners, the biggest being 5lbs 26 inches.
I agree with you catching bait size northern wouldn't be too hard. Now target 20 # + and see how you do. A little different game. I also do some sight fishing in 8 foot and less water. Many times a bigger northen will just come in and stare at the bait. I have changed up with a jig and a fat head and it was like flipping on a light switch. But to each their own YMMV. WS WS
Who are these people that claim bite offs with Floro? I have used the Floro leaders for years musky fishing and always use at least a 6 foot piece for a leader on tip ups. I have never lost a fish due to using it. I would even go further and say that if I did lose one or two big deal. With the increas in my catches since using it I would never change. WS
I just purchased some 40lb seagar fluoro leader for rigging my tip-ups for pike. Was this a good choice? Also do you guys tie this directly to the braided tip up line? I typically fish for northerns in 5-12 FOW so I was planning on tying about 5-6ft of leader directly to the braided line. Any thoughts or suggestions?Thanks fellas!