pike/bluegill

[jconge]

so to the pike fishermen with much more experience than me, if your jigging for bluegills and bam they stop bitting, does anyone swith to maybe a pike bait/jig/spoon and have good results, what im wondering is if alot of times the bite shuts off because a pike comes into the area, anyone that fishes with caremas? thinking that im going to try having a heavy rod set up and waiting and then when the bite stops ill drop that in. thanks

[bunnyasassyn]

i used to do it all the time in the 1000 islands. be jiggin away slammin perch an gills and all of a sudden they dissapear and a gator comes slithering in. well i got smart to that trick and id hook a small gill or perch on a tip up and when they would show up drop it down real quick and WHAM!! another thing you could do is just set a tip up just outside your hut or right next to you if you dont have a hut. ive tried the heavy rod w/ a rapala deal but the live bait seems to produce better. Good luck!!

[tapsboy68]

i notice recently after i would catch a small pike and through it back, the big gills would start bitting.

[captain54]

We've been getting pike to hit small panfish jigs like crazy this year,I caught a 35 incher(10 lb 6 oz) on a 24 Ul St. Croix rod and 3lb test,and had several smaller fish hit them,I don't switch to spoons,because I'm jigging for Gills and Crappie,but most time have 2-4 tip-ups on the edge of the weed beds,set for pike. I do know that the panfish shout down when we hook a pike,sometimes for at least an hour.

[slipperybob]

It's good to have a Chubby Darter on a rod waiting by...catch'm or call'm in.

[esox_magnum]

Catch a small gill and add it to a tip up or deadstick rod if legal, works great for pike and walleye. Perch are another fine bait.

[deadbait dave]

pike prefer trout over bluegills! 

[taggin out]

Dbd how do u hook ur dead trout?

[esox slayer]

pike prefer trout over bluegills! 

That's because pike prefer big, stinking, oily bait.

A trout fits that description nicely.  (At least the stinking and oily part)

[esox_magnum]

Luckily no trout here   

[fishin machine]

Pike prefer whitefish over anything.

[slipperybob]

Tullibees, ciscoes, and lake herrings are oil and stinky too. 

[jrmPikeFreak]

Last year pike kept swimming by my camera wile i was jigging so i drilled a hole right outside my shanty and put in a tip-up and sure enough i popped my head out the door and the flag was up. I do that every time i go out now when ever pike swim by the camera.

[icejunky]

I was doing this exact thing yesterday, jigging for gills and the screen clears... then this guys swims in... as you can see I did not have anything else rigged, so tried to temp him with my gill jig

http://www.youtube.com/user/ICEJNKY?feature=mhum

I usually have a spoon and minnow at the ready to drop when the screen clears or when I see a pike move in

[tjkpopup]

what size spoon?

[StabinCabin]

Well from my experience i do alot of spearing for pike my hole in 24x48 hole i could be watching gill perch in the hole than boom there gone. Some times it a pike or bass. And i have had days were pike or bass come in and the gill/perch don't move. Hope this helps.