Pike fishing !!!

[rapala101]

i love to fish for pike but all i do for them is fish up in the shallow water and i was woundering if there were anything better to catch Big Pike!! what lures to us>? what depth to fish in>? And thanks for the help!! and i hope it helps me in my fishing!

[therancher]

IF you want to catch giants, go to a lake with lots of ciscos. Just drive around in deep water until you find a ball of baitfish with a large hook near it. Get a shad tail jig and bounce it down where you see the hook. If you do not catch anything....move along to the next school of baitfish. If you do this for any period of time you will catch your big pike. 30+ feet of water, before it turins over. Good luck.

[bigfish21]

Use larger lures (musky baits) in deep water that is next to shallow structure (rock flats or weedbeds next to a drop off). Fish the lure slow because big pike are lazy and looking for an easy meal. The deeper water provides them with the cool water they need to survive in the hot summers. I like to take a bulldawg and sometimes even a shallowdawg in the mag size and work it slowly giving it short(6in) quick pops with the rod. I usually catch a few fish a day over ten pounds fishing like this in a lake with some potential

[Toby]

Put the motor in gear and troll #14 Husky Jerks behind the boat. troll in 8-12 feet of water and hang on!!!!

[rapala101]

thanks for all the help and ill get out there and try to see if it works!!! and if u know anymore plzz tell me i could use anything that i can get

[BigWadeS]

Hey Rapala,

Where do you usually target them at? I am in the same boat, enjoy catching them but haven't been able to find or break the 12lb mark.

[cupper]

On couldy days with some wind, I like to target them on midlake points or sunken islands that the wind is blowing TOWARDS. This will aslo work on windblown shoreline structure. Steep drop-offs are best.

The wind pushes microscopic organisms to points and shoreline... minnows follow microbs, baitfish follow minnows, pike follow baitfish. If you have decent electronics just look for the clouds of baitfish (just like some of the fellas said earlier). If there are archs or bigger fish underneath the cloud, they are most likely pike and you are in business. Even if you don't see the archs underneath the cloud of baitfish, it is still worth throwning some casts and making a trolling pass or two before you move on.

Good luck, and remember to releash them right so they can grow even bigger.

-cupper

[Boedigheimer]

Rapala, I have been getting nice pike on big redtail chubs, fished on a livebait rig, deep.

Instead of a mono or flouro leader use sevenstrand or some Tyger braid, as natural as possible but still able to handle the teeth of the scissorbills.

Fish these on the sides of humps or points next to deep water, deep being key(25-40ft). It seems these larger Pike will be right in the thermocline, where hard bottom meets soft bottom.

Get ahold of the biggest redtails you can find, its worth the effort to get good bait. When these redtails start to do the death dance, put the motor in neutral and prepare for a hook-up, don't feed to much after the bite to minimize gut hooking. Good luck