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what do you think is the best all around lure for pike?


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I think it would depend on the water your fishing. I usually fish in clear lakes with few weeds. I use Rapalas with a huge amount of success. Growing up, I used Daredevils because that's what my dad used. I imagine in less clear or weedier waters, a spinnerbait might be the ticket.

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Dive and rise jerkbait or side to side glide bait. They don't make many good options in the smaller than muskie sizes, but the muskie sized ones drive even small pike nuts. They are a bit of a pain to fish with but I doubt anything else works better, so long as the fish are fairly shallow. Trolling big cranks is tough to beat for deepwater pike.

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Rapalas, Wally Divers, Yo-Zuri's, Salmo's, Reef Runners, Rattl Traps, Daredevles, Spinner Baits, Spinner rigs, and just about anything else you put in the right depth.

I should mention, the lures that catch the big pike are a different animal all together.

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Don't over look surface lures either like a buzz bait, walk the dog style, or even frogs! I catch numerous pike on a bat wing frog( that is why i use a leader on them now!), including my biggest of 14#.

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daredevils-aka old reliable.if nothin else is workin, the daredevil will.if that dont work....might as well go home.im awefully fond of raps too and the 5 of diamonds spoon.i just caught a 41" pike on a LITTLE minnow & a spinner about a week ago.sometimes i think theyll eat anything.

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years ago i belonged to northerns inc. and we had a tournament on big marine. it was this time on the year. i think i came in next to last if not last. i used the same stuff, many of the lures already mentioned. the guy who won used a half ounce jig with a stinger hook and live sucker. he was working the deeper water. i learned something that day and i use that tecnique still today in lakes such as grindstone for example. other than that give me that old beat up daredevil or spinerbaits around weeds. good luck.

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For some reason I've never had the kind of luck with dardevles that other people have had. I've always just thought that the lakes I've used 'em on were lakes where the pike had become accustomed to 'em.

They still have caught fish for me though, just not ferocious numbers of them.

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