Fish Belly

[Spicoli]

if you cut off a slab of the belly that is maybe 1 inch wide and 4 inches long and use it with a flyer on a tip up, the pike go crazy for it!

[iceintheveins]

I was thinking of putting some deadbait like that on a flyer or airplane jig on a wind tip up. Pike just don't hit through the ice around here for some reason. Willing to try just about anything.

Tyler

[Spicoli]

yeah i just like using something like that cause it stays on better than anything else and really doesn't get chewed up

[Trophy Hunter]

Spicoli perch belly is awesome!! For everything from walleyes burbot pike and especially perch!! one of my favourite baits when the action is fast and furious it last a long time and it is tough so you don't have to change baits all the time.Mackdaddy there must not be big numbers of pike around there and therefore they aren't the top dawg in the lake mabey making them less aggressive???

[iceintheveins]

Yeah trophy hunter that's pretty much what I decided about the pike around here, must not be that many anymore since the CDOW has a no bag limit rule statewide. I can catch them through open water usually but they can be on the tough side then, 1 - 4 pike is average through open water for me. I use all the classic presentations in open and ice. Must just be a bummer for numbers, though we do have some very big pike. I'm thinking of getting an underwater camera next year just to search out pike habitat in these lakes and see if there are any lollygagging around. Then if I don't see many I will know that they aren't numerous. If I see them all over but inactive, I will know that they must not feed well in the winter here for some reason. I would love to finally get in on some good ice pike action like you guys get. Might have to move for that though.

Tyler

[TroutFishingBear]

CDOW biomass surveys show that the pike numbers are extremely high. But we both know how wrong they can be mack for example not knowing about the hundreds of thousands of lakers in reudi reservoir. I am thinking that the low oxygen content in our lakes because of altitude might shut pike down for some reason???

[David_the_fisher]

hey but then again u might need a big hook or jig which everone though .



 happy jigging