Rosy Reds

[chuck]

I'm in a fishing little friendy fishing tourney on a little lake with many pike.  I'm looking for an advantage for bragging rights.  I heard of using Rosy Reds.  What do you think?  Would it be an advantage over typical baits.  I've never used them before

[Neptune]

I gotta ask....What in the world is a Rosy Red???

[ChenBassHead]

I doubt it...Rosies are basically red fatheads...pretty much just perch minnows.  Want an advantage?  Use smelt...even if you can only get the ones at your grocery store, they work great because they're super oily.  Use them dead or alive.

-Zach

[Scientist]

Rosies would not be an advantage for pike, trout maybe, they are typically too small. Smelt work fine, if you buy them frozen thaw them out overnight in the refrigerator. However what I have found to work even better than smelt were sardines. Fresh, if you can get them, but frozen are just as good. Don’t use canned or salted, etc. Only place that sells them in my area is an Asian market.  Average size of a sardine is 6-8” so it attracts large pike and musky. When you drop your bait in the water you will actually see oil in the hole from the fish. 

[deadbait dave]

ocean herring or mackerel! check out r.i. pike pictures all fish caught on 12 to 15 inch ocean herring and mackerel, and i catch them like that wherever there's pike!      d. b. d.