Northern Lures

[fishinbros]

Every day there is a new bait out there that you just have to get. But the many older ones work just as good. I am curious to every ones opinion on their best northern lures/baits. My personel favorite must have would be the Windels Pike Harasser(Nickel/black), the x-rap(any color), and a larger sized zara spook

[Andrew Erickson]

rattle traps and spinnerbaits

[porterhouse]

For Pike you can't beat spinnerbaits and large shad raps.

Brian

[BigWadeS]

I'm a sucker for the good ol' fashioned dare devils in various colors, white in-line spinners, large cranks (perch or shad), and of course trolling spinners seem to pick some up too

[eyehead]

Cant go wrong with a white spinnerbait

[BobT]

White spinnerbait and my old standby is a white/red spoon with copper back. For some reason it has to have the copper backside and not the nickle.

Bob

[Esoxmn]

Suicks, Mag 18 raps, and Large spinner baits.

[Rebel9921]

red/white dardevles (w/ copper back), red-eye wriggler, and hot pink/black Mepps Musky Killer (single) all produced wonderfully for me while I was growing up...

[BigGrassBass]

3/4 ounce double willow white spinnerbait

[Fishing_High]

Spinnerbaits and Rattle Traps work great.... I also couldn't keep the pike of my line bass fishing with a chatterbait.

[b1gf1sh1]

my biggest pike was on a #12 Husky j e r k (another post says #9 but that's wrong) but by far my best producer is a 3/4 .oz slop master spinnerbait, stripped and retied with a generous amount white angora rabbit fur. and a dark brown head. sometimes i don't know why i take it off.

[cjac]

I have to agree with many of the above lures!

My "Fav 5"...yep, just like the cellular carrier commercial!

White Spinnerbait

Firetiger Fat Rap

Johnson Silver Minnow (used one almost all straight week in Canada)

Sub-surface like a Bassereno, they all have teeth marks!

Topwater like a Heddon Torpedo

[budiva]

Krocodile spoon, I had one in my box last year on our Canada trip and I outfished the other seven guys in our group with it. Caught a 41" 43" and 12 others between 37 and 39 plus two 25" walleye. Needless to say I won't be the only one with one next year. Honorable mention is the half-wave spoon.

[Dan L]

I also like a 1/2 ounce white spinnerbait. Suicks are a great big pike bait. I have also caught some big pike burning fat raps on the weedline. A small bait but pike like them.

[polarsusd81]

For me, I love Suicks, Rapala 18s, Rattle Traps, big firetiger spinnerbaits, and other fast moving slash baits.

Anyone remember the old Berkley Power Rattles? They were a rattle trap type lure with the back half being powerbait plastic. I have three of them with a few tails left over, one is chartruese with a green tail, one is and emarald shiner type color with the same green tail, and one is chrome blue with a blue tail. That is a never fails pike bait right there. Every one of them has a ton of teeth marks in them and the tails are pretty chewed up too. That is a super fast moving bait and they just can't resist them.

[walleyeslammer]

I have got to go with the 1oz five of diamonds daredevil followed by smelt rigged on bottom or below a bobber just like I use for ice fishing

[b1gf1sh1]

i miss all those old lures. like the power rattle, super shadrap in tennesee shad, the bagley shad R in balsa, but most of all i miss the original storm thin fins, in short and tall both. man those thing caught fish. i'd pat 20 bucks apiece for black and silver or purple silver. probly the same for a tennesee. thanks for the memmories polar.

[OneWay]

If I could only take 1 lure on a pike fishing expedition there is no contest in my opinion. It would be a Daredevle 1 oz. 5 of Diamonds. It has never let me down, and you can't tear one up.

[Neighbor_guy]

My go to is always the 3/4oz silver minow. Red/white, Silver, and Gold in that order. Suicks, white inlines, husky [PoorWordUsage] and dt6 in bluegill are also good producers for me.

[hanso612]

I love to go old school for pike. My old school "go to's" are

1. The big kahuna,aka Creek Chub Darter- has to be wood, like the jointed ones but 3 treble straight is great too.

2. The Doctor spoon in silver, gold or 5 of diamonds. Has to be the heavy guage- no knock offs.

3. The venerable live sucker.

4. Mepps-black bucktail

New favorites

1. Mag shad rap-golden shiner color

2. Tiger tubes-crayfish color

3. Ratle trap -fire tigre

[Random guy]

Have you been digging in my tackle box?