Northern Pike

I switched to steel after loosing three fish and three lures in one afternoon. Prior to that I had good luck with just normal line and cutting/retyping the lure after each fish. Had one big pike pull my kayak around for a while before I got it up to the side of the boat. When I reached over with my net it rolled hard and broke the steel leader where they have the little cinch pieces to make the loop. Pulled the free end right out of the cinch and swamp off with my lure in its mouth.

 

I live dangerously. I didnt take an accurate number but I caught 13 on one of my spoons and majority of them didnt have a steel leader. I know their teeth are razor sharp and braided line wouldnt last with a tooth hitting it, but if you keep your line up and they are just biting the spoon and treble hook they dont bite through the spoon. Just have to finesse them in, they do a couple runs but dont have much stamina.

 

Northern Pike. Now there's a name I hadn't heard in a while. My brother (left) and myself In thunder bay, Ontario nearly 40 yrs ago.

Good times with both my grandfather's, my dad, my brother and my uncle johnny.

 

wow that one on the far right is a big one!

My wife caught the first pike of the season Today! measured in at 29.5" and 7.7lbs beating her PB by 2 oz...lol But she has bragging rights for the first pike caught this year..

 

My biggest. Caught in Canada 40 inches. Never weighed it

 

16 or so pounds?

 

Don't know never weighed it . My buddies and I go by length not by weight.

 

I do both, 37" fish will be around 13-14lbs

 

Then yea I guess so that fish is long dead I didn't kill it. Old age. I caught it roughly 15 years ago.

 

water is starting to warm here, and they are in pre-spawn. I was glad my wife caught one today, I'll be catching as many as I can soon!

 

Good we got 2 inches of snow today

 

Everything is still iced over here. I’ll probably go out this weekend to check a few spots and see if anything’s opened up enough to be worth trying.

 

Cool they'll be hungry from the winter.

 

yep! The one my wife caught was full of eggs and empty stomach! Crappie are starting to bite also....

 

of course in supposed to 70 by Thursday

 

snowing today! but tomorrow and next few days looks decent. I bought some #8 colorado blades to try out on my pike spinner lure. Supposedly the big blade makes a good vibration that the pike sense and cant resist!

 

well something had to give, finally caught the first pike of the year, it wasnt very big...barely 2 pounds. but at least I caught one, it should start picking up now!

 

caught 1 single about a week ago now and another single today, my wife caught one also, so far 3 for the season for me and 2 for my wife. The one I caught today was on a senko worm and it flipped out of the water upside down. I dont know how it didnt bite through the braided line since i was all wrapped up in its mouth

 

It's funny how many pike you'll catch while bass fishing. I seem to catch more pike while bass fishing than I ever did when i was targeting pike!