Author Topic: Doing Drives for Pike? (Read 3018 times)

Buzz-Stix · « **on:** Dec 28, 2006, 01:09 AM »

Anyone do drives for northerns, walking and stomping on a lake and driving the fish around? I have some friends who swear by it, but I think it sounds dumb. I know if u stompped around you'd move fish but they would be spooked.

Curtis

Muskie Nut · « **Reply #1 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 01:20 AM »

I've seen alot of guys buzz around their tip ups with their 4-wheelers or snowmobiles and they swear by it, and I've seen minimal success. Or is it just coincidence?

ChenBassHead · « **Reply #2 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 01:29 AM »

There has been a lot of discussion about this in the past. People talking about how when they walk up to their tipups, they suddenly go off. There was no real general consensus, but I personally feel that the noise does indeed have a little to do with this. If you've seen Aqua-Vu videos of pike, you'll notice that they often just sit and stare at a bait before hitting it. Personally, I think the pike get a little panicked and decide to "grab and go"...that is, they grab the bait and take off. As far as pushing them around, I think that sounds pretty stupid.

But then again, I thought using hot dogs for pike bait was dumb, and a lot of people say THAT works...

-Zach

Buck1985 · « **Reply #3 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 02:53 AM »

It seems though that the things most people don't do are the things that work. I read of a family who drive deer for bowhunting. It's more of just pushing them out of the bedding area by getting upwind of it and letting the scent drift in and they try and sneak out a trail and have people posted along the main escape trail. I've seen my windlass start bobbing a lot and walk over to it and it go off about the time I get there. Who knows what crazy things are actually working these days. Tight lines y'all

Haywood · « **Reply #4 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 07:08 AM »

I don't know if that was the reason or not, but last year we were pike fishing in a bay with a car access pretty close to it and just about every time a car would go by us, it was only seconds until we had flags.

RLWagner · « **Reply #5 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 07:40 AM »

Given the extreme length of lateral lines along a Pike, the extracuricular sounds may generate a quick strike response as the Pike may be detecting the vibrations as coming from the bait? $:-\$

sled-in · « **Reply #6 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 11:29 AM »

If the fish aren't biting, how can it hurt to get up and get the blood moving? I like to sit still as much as possible, but when the pike aren't biteing I like to fire up the drill.

Rat-Man · « **Reply #7 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 01:17 PM »

IV'E BEEN FISHING FOR 50 YEARS

NOW AND THATS WHAT ALL THE OLD TIMERS DO, AND IT WORKS, AT LEAST IT CAN'T HURT

perchking4ever · « **Reply #8 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 04:34 PM »

two years ago there was allot of snowmobiles and quads driving around the lake and when ever one passed a tip up it would go off and we would catch a fish idk if it was luck or something else.

bigchev98 · « **Reply #9 on:** Dec 28, 2006, 06:28 PM »

ill just let all the snowmobilers and 4wheelers do the work for me, im lazy

UncleFluffy · « **Reply #10 on:** Dec 30, 2006, 09:12 PM »

I figure it doesn't seem to hurt. Besides, it good to get up and stretch a bit and build up a bit of body heat. Keep those holes clean too!

doggbiter · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 07, 2007, 05:10 PM »

I don't know about drives One tip I can give is to walk the line and grab your tips and give a couple big arm jigs. Alot of times this will give a flag before you get to the last one.
My theory is that your minnow gets wise and lays as motionless as possible, because he knows he's a sitting duck out there in the big water. So go by and make him have to move and tred some water for a while, the big fish can see him now!
Works for my team!

GOOD LUCK

macker13 · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 10, 2007, 09:34 AM »

A buddy of mine and his group does this using ice spuds. They set up in the middle of a weed bed and after about an hr they walk to one end and spread out just like you would for a pheasant hunt or deer drive. They walk and bang their spuds on the ice to move the pike toward the tip-ups. Then the let the area rest for a bit, move to the other end of the weed bed and repeat the process. They do this only if the fishing is slow.

Over the Christmas/New Year's break, I was fishing near an older gent who had his 30ish son and daughter with him. Occasionally, the son would jump on his sled and fly around the outside of his set up. He swore that it would guarantee action. Often a flag or two would follow. However, we were getting such good action that I couldn't detect that it was causing flags to be at a higher frequency then when we were just sitting around.

chuck · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 17, 2007, 02:12 PM »

I read this thread a day before I went fishing last weekend. I really didn't give it much thought until a snowmobile went whistling by one of my tip ups. I was kind of pissed at first, then not even a minute later, I got a flag. Then just before dark, I jumped a few times around each tip-up. I got two more flags. Coincidence?

pikekiller · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 18, 2007, 10:33 AM »

This topic reminds me of a slow day of pike fishing a few years ago. The flags were few and far between, so the four of us decided to pull our gear. as I was walking up to my last tipup, my friend rolled up on his ATV and slid to a stop with his tire about a foot from the hole. he thought that was pretty funny, then the flag went up and neither one of us could believe it. I raised my trap from the hole with the spool turning and set the hook on an average sized northern. we just stood there and laughed for quite a while. Maybe it wasn't coincidence after all.

AirManCam · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 19, 2007, 03:51 PM »

Every time I go out, and I think about this, and I think it really works, but hey who am I to say such a thing.

team95monte · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 20, 2007, 05:41 AM »

It may be true it may not be. No one can say for sure what makes them bite. After you get a flag I have found, especially in shallow water that if you are loud while getting to your flag, they tend to drop the bait, so when you get one, creep, don't walk or run to your hole.!!!!!!!!!!!

chuck · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 22, 2007, 01:15 PM »

I tried it again. My son and I walked around our tip ups just before dark yesterday. He was jumping a little by each one. picked up 2 more flags. I think I can't hurt to but that in my tip up pick up regimen

Tip-Up · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 22, 2007, 08:34 PM »

Do it. It works when nothing is happening.

I'll do it and seen it tigger a strike waaaaaaay to many times to be a fluke

pikekiller · « **Reply #19 on:** Jan 22, 2007, 09:32 PM »

Tip-Up, I can't doubt pike advice from you. I have showed your pics to dozens of people. That 30#-er never gets old. 2 questions: what size hole do you fish through? and what size hooks?

woodyvt · « **Reply #20 on:** Jan 30, 2007, 11:57 AM »

I agree with dogbiter.....I do the same thing.....after things slow down I go around and lift the tip ups out of the water and jig it a bit before placing it back down.

I'd say from experience it does work every now and again.

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Author Topic: Doing Drives for Pike? (Read 3018 times)