While I don’t usually actively go out and seek pike, they are without a doubt one of the most fun fish to catch (in the summer at least, nothing makes you angrier ice fishing than when you see a big pike lurking down your hole scaring off all the perch.) They are fierce fighters and they taste pretty good as well (if you can get past picking tiny bones out of your mouth). Hell, I know a guy who would keep any pike he caught while ice fishing and feed it to his dog when he got back, so I guess they can make some pretty decent dog food as well. But, I digress. The reason you are here is because you want to know the best ways to catch pike. There is no better place to start than with the lure.
Now, there is really no such thing as pike fishing lures per se. Pike will usually bite on anything and some of the biggest pike have been caught on a simple walleye jigging lure (this is because the monster pike like to patrol the edges of a walleye school to hopefully catch a meal). That being said, however, there are some lures that can be classified as pike lures just because they are known to be more successful than others.
Some of the best pike lures out on the market currently are the “Five of Diamonds” and the “Red and Silver” spoon lures. You can find these at any fishing or sporting goods store and I’m sure a vast majority of you already have one or a hundred lying around your tackle boxes, because they are just that damn good. Now, I am not going to insult your intelligence by telling you how to fish with a spoon, but I will tell you one technique that you may not know about (and if you do know about it, feel free to twiddle your thumbs or start pinching all the barbs of the new hooks you got for this summer while I explain it). This technique is called “spoon slapping.” What you do is cast your spoon over to the place you want to fish, but cast it high. Then, when your lure is about 2 or 3 feet above the water, jerk the line towards you so that the spoon slaps on the water. The sound of a spoon slapping on the surface of the water seems to attract pike or trigger a feeding response. In general, though, spoons are usually used for casting and not jigging.
The best pike lure, in my opinion, is one that you make yourself. Do you have an old Rapala lying around that you don’t use anymore? Well, if you do, you can use it to make a very effective pike fishing lure. What you do is break off the little plastic fin and the hooks from the Rapala. Then you attach a black steel leader to the front and another to the back with a spring-slip-ring. Then attach your spoon to the leader on the back. What this does is the spoon simulates a fish swimming after the Rapala. Nothing gets a monster pike angrier than seeing other fish trying to eat. They are extremely competitive and love to assert their dominance in the food chain.
Now that you have read this, go make an excuse to the wife and spend the weekend fishing. Hopefully you can net that monster pike you have been dreaming about.
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