Shore Fishing

[kingkidfisher4431]

Me and a buddy are going to be going to a lake in the carlton area and are wondering if i could get some tips for shorefishing pike. The rod i have and line is plenty but i was wondering more about rig/setup for fishing this way. What i was thinking, and let me know if this is wrong, but taking an egg sinker and putting it above a swivel, then putting on a leader, and finnally a hook with a sucker on it. All of this below a slip bobber. Would this rig work? Any other input for fishing pike from shore with live bait rigs would be helpful!

Thanks!!!

[whitewolf6647]

That rig would work just fine for slip bobbin pike. The slip bober I use are those cigar floats made by billy bob tackle if I'm not mistaken. They are about 6-8 inches long and are designed to act like some what of a neutrally bouyent float kind like a log that's been in the water while and there's 7/8 of it under water the rest sticking out. With getting the weight just right the fish won't feel any resistence when it pulls the bobber down unlike the more common styorafoam floats that make a wake the size of a small boat when pulled through the water. lso when you do get teh weight right there should only be about maybe an inch or at most 2 sticking out of the water Anyway, this is the exact rig I use when slip bobbing pike year round and will work great. Another tip when hooking your sucker are you hooking it behind the dorsal fin? If so start the hook right in front of the dorsal fin and push it back towards the tail so when you get done the hook point is towards the tail end of the sucker, make sure you don't go to deep into them or you could kill them and make sure you don't hit their spin with the hook they really don't like that and don't move very much for odvious reasons. The rig for this reason is so you don't have to let the pike take it for very long time. Alot of times I set the hook right away when I have a sucker rigged like this and it seems to work fine and also if you plan on doing catch and release it doesn't hurt the fish. Sure you're gonna have some just spit your bait out even before you set the hook and your gonna miss some hook sets but heh that's fishing. Good luck.