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Northerns have turned on up here.

thedeadsea

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I caught 7 of them while attempting to catch walleye yesterday.

I caught 6 of them on a 1/8 oz jig with a crappie minnow and one on a small swedish pimple. What a fight on walleye gear!

One was a silver pike, my first in 25 years of fishing. Let that one go. My phone had gone dead earlier in the day, so I didnt get a pic. frown

I guess it's time to hit my northern lake now with tip ups and heavy jigging rods.

Steve

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I was on a small lake in 8 FOW. Lake only gets about 9 feet deep. Last year at about this time I only caught walleyes in the same spot. Got one nice walleye in the morning and missed a couple right at dark. The funny thing is I have fished this lake many times and have never caught a single pike before yesterday.

A silver pike is a variant of regular northern pike. Their sides are a pale silver in color with a dark back. The spots are still present but pale.

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Kind of funny to me you mention catching them on crappie minnows. Two weekends ago I was fishing with some buddies on a small lake by Emily, Our intention was to fish for pike, but one guy decided to spear and in the meantime seen and caught a few very large crappies. So later in the morning after getting bored watching and moving tip-ups a different buddie and I decided to each pull up a tip-up and fish one crappie line. Well by the end of the day we had caught 5 crappies and 20 northerns, only 5 of the northerns where caught on a tip-up and sucker minnow. 15 northerns caught on crappie jigs and minnows and i can't remember how many where hooked and got off, a lot though. It appears downsizing works with northerns also!

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