10 WAYS TO Pike
1. Observe before fishing
Many fishermen, ran to the pond, immediately throw the bait. Here it is just what to do and do not. When fishing for pike takes time to properly look. So, looking at the both of them! Where there can be a pike? Pay attention to the underlying water, the trunks of trees, reeds and water lilies faded edges, and on the edge of the pit and on the bottom. It is, as a rule, and there are "hot spots". If you are lucky, you can find pike in time for hunting (small fish jump out of the water). And it is half luck, because you know for sure: Jordania pike.
2. Learn the habits of pikes
Fish have a certain feeding time you need to know. True, pikes spend only a small part of their time looking for food. If their stomach is full, they can not touch the most beautiful bait all day. But the one who goes fishing a lot knows their lunchtime. If you regularly watch large pikes, mark the periods of the Jora and come to fishing at this time of day. This technique increases the chance to catch them on the hook.
3. Go your own way.
Choosing a method of fishing with a certain body of water, most anglers are usually guided by colleagues. If many are caught on spinners, almost each and tries to comb through all the same lake lures. Well, of course, on the spinners can be a fair amount to catch pike, but then the question remains: are they really the best pike bait? In such cases it is necessary to experiment and go fishing in other ways. For example, try your luck with wobblers, silicone fish or other artificial lures. The lakes, which is excellent pike caught on a fish-bait, sea fish is worth a try. To do this for a few days to lure the place, and then go fishing there. It is not a mater pike half tempted sardines or mackerel.
4. Come up with something new.
Experimentation and ter singing almost always lead to success in fishing. For example, you catch on a plot with a three-meter depth to the reed shallows. Begin to fish his crank with a diving depth of about one meter, because the pike often attack their prey from below. When using it you carefully for fishing on this site, replace the bait to lure a greater depth of immersion (about three meters) or greater silicone fish with a lead head. Examining the entire water column, we can say with certainty that there are biting or not. In promising places worth to stay for half an hour, as cautious large pike often begin to attack the bait after only a few casts.
5. Slowly draw the bait.
Many anglers use bait too fast wiring. I advise you to watch how some of the bleak in shallow water. Here it floats some distance, will stand in the water with almost no traffic, and then swims. Thus, in comparison with the natural prey of our lure with its rapid wiring may seem very suspicious pike. Maybe it is because of improper wiring sometimes predators chasing bait at a safe distance until near the shore, suddenly turned back. With the advent of new generation type suspender wobblers (suspended wobbler) can be (unlike metal lures) to pause in the wiring without fear of instant immersion to the bottom. By the way, pike often grabs the lure at the very moment when, after a pause, he again starts to move.
6. Broaden your horizons.
In waters where fishing from a boat is prohibited, most anglers fished for a distance of approximately 20 meters from the shore. Therefore, after some time on this narrow coastal strip of pike are unlikely to catch. However, anglers using cunning poplavka- "sails" learned by the wind to guide your bait far across the lake to ultimately still catch the coveted trophy. But the whole scheme can operate exactly the opposite. On small lakes (in the area of ​​small peat), many fishermen spend their bait right in the middle of the lake, because they feel as though there pikes. But in open water fish are unlikely to find shelter. Therefore, in such reservoirs it makes sense right from the shore, "walk" with silicone fish on coastal zones, because there are overgrown with water lilies, bush and cane areas where pike lies in wait. However, these places have to fished quietly crept noiselessly and walking on the beach. In these situations, even the shadow of the angler, incident on the surface of the water in the coastal area, serves as a warning signal for the fish.
7. Mimic natural food.
In small ditches, in which even large pike feed mainly fry, large bright red silicone fish predator will cause suspicion rather than encourage it to bite. The same applies to other bodies of water in which the fish pike feed on one species. At the Swedish archipelago, for example, where in the salted water of the Baltic Sea thick pike zhiruyut among flocks of herring, the best bait to catch on with a blue or light green color, because they are reminding to herring. On the colorful bait with neon color only possible accidental bite.
8. Choose a sensitive snap.
Until now, there is a perception that you need to catch pike stiff rods and fishing line 0.40 mm in diameter. But in practice, we manage, as a rule, much more subtle accessories. At small lakes where rare 5-kg pike enough to have a strong fishing line diameter of 0.25 mm and a thin steel leash capacity of 5 kg. Even on large bodies of water will fit perfectly monofilament of 0.30 mm in diameter. However, for such fine woods require soft rod with parabolic action, which absorb jerks pike trying to escape quickly and harassed her.
9. Correctly pick the hooks and bait fish
When we catch on the large single hooks (в„– 2/0 and more), you must give the pike how to swallow the bait. If the bait is near any obstacles, there is a danger that the pike will hide it, before we do sweeps. In this regard, before sunken trees, algae and other edges. I use a system of two tees, which are stuck on each side of the fish-bait. When the float sink, I quickly count to ten and hooking. Most pike pinpoint Front; schuryat I release back into the pond.
10. Be confident
This is the most important condition in fishing. Do you have a bait that has already presented you with a few beautiful pike? Then stay true to this bait in the future. To master new methods you still have to overcome the psychological barrier. Only when catches increase will self-confidence increase.
Pike fishing
Pike is the usual prey of any spinninguist, and first of all because it occurs more often than other fish. Pike is a typical predator: hardly reaching a size of a few centimeters, it goes on to feed on fish larvae. Growing up, pike eats all living creatures: fish, frogs, mice, accidentally falling into the water, waterfowl (pike-utyatnitsy), she does not spare her younger relatives. Scientists believe that for every kilogram of growth pike consumes more than 10 kg of animal food!
The largest pike weight recorded is 35 kg. Usually come across fish weighing 1-2 kg. Intending to hunt with spinning on the pikes in the pond, where they are known to be found, do not expect, however, to catch fish anywhere and from the first cast. To succeed, you must find a parking lot of fish.
The pike avoids a fast current and keeps in quiet water, close to the accumulation of fish stuff. The “runner”, torpedo-shaped body of the pike gives it an excellent swimmer, however, possessing a “secretive character”, she prefers to hunt from ambush. Noticing a fish passing by, a pike with a short, sprint throw grabs it and returns to the shelter. Therefore, it makes no sense to look for pike on clean sand banks.
The favorite habitat of medium-sized pike in rivers, reservoirs and small lakes - rare reeds, "islands" of lake reeds or Kuga, cattail or Chuck thickets of Eurasian water milfoil, pondweed; vctrechaetsya and thickets elodea, water lilies, do not mind hiding in submerged snags and stumps around, in the clearings between the boulders. Hence pike raided the flocks of small fish. Sometimes this is called the pike "travyankoy": it is strongly elongated body of a beautiful greenish-brown color with lighter patches, and often with a bronze tint.
However, not every water the grass like a pike. She does not like the place, covered with horsetails, and telorez like Urrutia, but with hard leaves hornwort, which, by the way, avoid the fish and fry. Starting catch, do not take a few minutes - check and estimate reservoir, where it can be pike. The bait thus bombarded to "strong" portions and conduct it along the edge of water thickets, y snags and clearing therebetween. Certain risk - hook, and possibly lose the bait - it is justified. During good fish almost every cast in places brings the coveted booty.
For fishing of medium-sized pike, spinning with a rod of normal order is suitable, any tooling, both one-handed and two-handed, with an inertial or spinless reel, not very thick (0.35-0.5 mm) fishing line and a metal or metal insert with a leash. Since you have to catch at shallow depths - up to 1.5-2 m, the sinker should be the easiest, and even better to catch without a sinker, using heavy bait.
In spring, it is better to use small spinners of dull colors, and in fast-flowing rivers - oscillating brass or copper-red spinners. Not yet recovered after spawning, the pike is not able to keep up with the fast-moving fishes, so bring out the spinner more slowly, but so that it does not hook on the bottom. Post-spawning pike zhor lasts one and a half to two weeks, then weakens.
When the water warms up, the pike is caught only in the dawns (in the morning - more actively and only before the sun rises). Spinners - rotating brass and copper-red, unpurified - conduct at medium speed - about 0.4-0.5 m per second (this corresponds to approximately two turns of the large inertia reel drum or one turn of the inertia-free handle).
Pike fishing technique
In the fall pike is caught in the afternoon. Nibble begins some time after sunrise and stops before sunset. As a rule, in the fall, more catchy light and rather large oscillating lures are more catchy. When the water is very cool, fish trifle, fed off the coast, goes to the depth, where the pike rush. Late autumn should be caught at depth, using as spinners, hooks and fish on a rig.
However, there are no rules without exceptions. Pike often grabs the bait from the shore or from a boat. Not too big pike resist very vigorously, darting in all directions, strives to tighten the line under the driftwood, and sometimes does, "candle" - jumps out of the water almost to the meter height, somersaulting in the air and shaking his head. In such cases it is necessary to immediately lower the rod tip to the water, easing a scaffold, or pike can get off the hook. The intention to make a pike "candle" can be judged on its behavior. Firstly, it is observed on long casts. Pulling a fish, you notice that it is moving towards faster and faster, while approaching the surface (at this time it seems that the line running from you). So, pike accelerates and prepares to jump. The spectacular jump pike you do not need. On the contrary, make a pike to abandon his intention, for what little bit, loosen the line and when she again goes deep, just in case the fish hooked again! Before leaving his native element, pike making another attempt to break free. At first it seems that she is resigned to his fate, and humbly, without any resistance on the line goes up to the surface, wearily open its mouth. At the very same moment the last, as it were, lull fisherman throws a trick that you wonder, how did so many stupid fish wits! I was in my practice one embarrassing incident. He led me to the boat such conquer his fate pike, grabbed the leash of lower weights and pulled the fish into the boat. Once half in the air, pike instantly transformed: with wide-open mouth and sticking gill covers, she vigorously shook her head in surprise ... I was taken aback; at the same instant ringing baubles flew in my face, and the pike darted swiftly into the depths.
Any experience is useful. After that, I always checked how the pike behaves and how firmly the hook sits. If it comes with considerable resistance and with a closed mouth, then everything is in order - this will not break. And if it is unclear how: the hook hooked, I slightly let go of the line (the pike closes the mouth) and make a strong hook. Now my victory is guaranteed!
Large (bottom, lake) pike is colored darker, often in blue-green color with pale spots, its body is thicker. In large lakes such pike adheres to the boundaries of deep pestles near the coastal shoals. Usually it lurks in ambush at the depth among the snags and waits patiently for prey. With a lightning throw he grabs the victim, stops, and, having missed, returns to its former place.
Often, pike can also be found at a distance from the coast, where it hunts for smelt, smelt, small whitefish. Here it is more difficult to find a pike.
Pike bite the bottom can not be distinguished from the "dead" hook. It is not easy to bring a large pike: with great force it pulls the line, forcing the angler to take it meter by meter. Insufficiently strong fishing line so the pike tearing like a rotten thread. Therefore for catching big pike need rugged gear - hard two-handed rod, reel and line capacious 6-0,7 mm, and a fast-response - no thinner than 0.5 mm. Spinner - the greatest, light, rotating, combined with the sinker, and wavering, better two-tone. Perhaps the most true - to catch on with snastochku roach or perch long 10-15cm Only yielding force pike is at the very bottom, like a sunken log, without showing the slightest desire to rise to the surface.. The most reliable way to get a pike - take it to the bank. Just tired, pike lies on its side. However, do not try to take her hand or landing net, frightened and gathered his last strength, pike explode and leave.