How To Catch A Pike. Catch A Toothy Predator

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

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I think there is no other such fish for catching which would have been invented as many tackles and methods as for pike. There is a spinning rod, a track, and a circle, and a zerlitsa, and a post, and a line, and a sheer spoon, and an ordinary fishing rod, and a fishing rod with a sliding float and much more. And how many ingenious baits have been invented in order to seduce a toothy predator. In addition to the traditional set of all kinds of spinners, these are twisters, devons, vibrotails, wobblers, balancers, streamers, poppers …

In short, everything possible is being done to exterminate the pikes. No other species of fish could withstand such a persecution, and the pike does not care! She, like many years ago, thrives and populates all new reservoirs.

Of course, there are many tools for pike fishing, but the most common and prey are spinning, a lane with a spoon or dead fish. You can successfully hunt pike with the help of circles and girders. Still, most anglers prefer spinners (Fig. 1). By design, they can be divided into rotating, oscillating and bladed (Devons), and by weight - into heavy and light. You can fish with them throughout the season, both from a boat and from the shore.

It is almost impossible to answer unequivocally: which bait is more catchy in this or that case. Success depends on many reasons: from the season, weather, the situation on a particular reservoir. It is on a lake or river and only empirically it is possible to determine which lure the pike prefers at the moment.

Although there is an opinion among anglers that in spring and summer it is better to use small spinning ones, and in autumn - large oscillating spoons. Or, for example, it is believed that in sunny weather, pike often grabs silver spoons, and in cloudy weather - brass ones. But all these statements and reasoning are purely conditional. Because if the pike is hungry, it grabs any bait that comes along, if it is full, then no tricks will help.

In this case, something else is very important - this is the method and speed of wiring. From my own experience, I can only say one consideration: the wiring of the spoon should not be fast and very even. And here's why … Take a closer look at how the fry behave in shallow water: they do not stop for a moment and do not make a uniform rectilinear movement. Predators know this, including the pike.

Therefore, it is simply necessary to at least to some extent repeat the movements of a living fish. But that's not all. After all, there are enough pike, first of all, those fish whose behavior differs from usual. This factor should be considered when fishing for pike. In addition, if during the posting the predator accompanies the bait sometimes even to the boat, but does not take it, it is necessary to replace the bait or do the posting at a different speed.

In recent years, artificial lures made of various elastic materials, including soft ones (the so-called "foam rubber"), rubber, and various plastics, have become more and more common when fishing for pikes. Some of them - vibro-tails and twisters - were described on the pages of the magazine. Now we will talk about another artificial bait - a wobbler (Fig. 2).

This lure, made of wood or foam, imitating a fish, was formerly known among anglers as the "wooden fish" or "oreno". Wobblers are floating, slowly sinking, sinking and versatile.

The most attractive wobblers for pike are wobblers, which plausibly imitate the movement of a sick or wounded fish when guiding. But in any case, the selection of the optimal retrieval speed so that it arouses the interest of the predator is essential for success. For this, the angler must learn to "feel" the tackle.

Experienced pike anglers believe that when slowly reeling in the line, pikes prefer a dark silver color of the bait. And if the pike is at a shallow depth, the grip happens almost always. It is best to fish with such a floating wobbler on a cloudy or foggy morning, as well as in the rain. In addition, wobblers covered with aluminum foil are very effective in cloudy weather. In clear weather at depth, small sinking black and white wobblers, similar to small rudd, give good results.

It is convenient to use a wobbler to fish areas in "half water", that is, to carry out wiring between the bottom and the surface of the reservoir. You just need to remember that it is very difficult to make a long cast, due to the fact that the wobbler is a very light bait. When fishing near the bottom, there are almost always fewer bites, but larger pikes are found.

With its skillful use, a very prey tackle for catching pikes is a zerlitsa (Fig. 3). Although this is a passive tackle, it is indispensable when fishing in grassy thickets, in tricky places where nothing else can be reached. Another undoubted advantage of it is the simplicity in the device, which makes it easy to make the girder with your own hands.

To begin with, a slingshot is taken from any tree, the base of which should be about 20 centimeters, and the diverging branches - 10-15 centimeters. At the end of the base, a circular groove is cut out, behind which a 0.8-1.0 millimeter fishing line is securely tied, and it is attached in such a way that a loop is formed at the base for which the girder will be suspended. It can be tied to a bush, a bunch of aquatic plants, to a rod stuck in the ground.

The rest of the line is wound with a figure eight on the branches. Fishing lines need 10-15 meters. This is due to the fact that the pike, seizing the bait, does not immediately swallow it, but drags it for some time, and the line, unwinding from the flyer, allows it to do this. The end of one of the branches is split to secure the fishing line in it after the main part of it has been wound on the flyer. A metal leash with a double or tee is attached to the free end. And above the leash, the sinker is of such a carrying capacity that it does not allow live bait to emerge.

There is another very simple, but very prey method of fishing used by the locals. I have repeatedly observed it on lakes in Karelia (Fig. 4). Along the thickets of aquatic plants, in clean water, at a distance of 5-10 meters from each other, any two cola sticks are stuck (driven) into the bottom so that their ends protrude from the water by 30-40 centimeters. A cord is pulled between them, to which leashes with hooks are tied about every meter. Leashes are needed so long that they do not reach the bottom by 20-30 centimeters. Both live and dead fish are mounted on hooks.

And finally, I consider it necessary to warn that, having caught a pike (especially a large one), of course, tremble with joy. However, do not forget to handle it with extreme care. Remember that pike teeth are very sharp. But any cut is fraught with serious consequences, since the wound will inevitably begin to fester, and then long-term treatment will be required.