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I fish for pike all over the north east, every place I go seems to have a wide range of popular hook up. just wondering what everyones favorite pike hooks are? and why?
Gotemhooked, are those hooks strictly for dead bait?
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those r usually used with dead smelt or other dead bait with wind tips ups
windless tip-ups...never tried them with wind
2/0 Circle Hooks. I do not keep the Pike I just like catching them. After years of cutting off trebles inside a fish and then returning them to the water wondering if they will live I started using a single Circle hook. Works great. Just hold the line during the 2nd run and let the fish tighten the line. Just a light pull and the hook slides out of the gullett with out catching and runs right across the corner of the mouth where it hooks them in the "Hinge" of the jaw every time. Holds really well and the hook comes out with ease allowing them to go back in the water and live to pull on another fishermans line someday.i have seen fish that have lived after having the hook cut off, it is not a myth...the thing is u have to make the decision right away, not after you fight the hook for 5 minutes then decide it wont come out