Northern Pike quest

[SteveJ]

Here in Arizona the Northern Pike is considered a 'trash' fish and to be killed upon catching, never released!
I have found them to be most tasty.
My summer digs contains 2 nearby lakes loaded with said trash and I have committed myself to helping the G&F with their eradication.
Thinking of the 63/4" tube for top water and  Wutz-It - 7" rigged texas and Carolina style.
What do you think?

[andrewlamberson]

Chatterbaits! 

Pike Candy!!!!!

[SteveJ]

Chatterbaits! 

Pike Candy!!!!!

Should have said dealing with very weedy conditions.

[ctom]

That tube worm would be a great bait....black body/red tentacles. Bright red.

[MT204]

Spinner bait, white.
Beetle spin, white.

[efishnc]

On the rare occasion I'm trying to catch pike (on purpose), I'm typically using a spinner-bait with a silver blade and a light colored skirt with some flo-orange mixed in it.

[WALLEYE WACKER]

The two bait’s you have are great when the weeds are thick. I myself like the wutz it.

[Paneltruck.lures]

I am no biologist but I don’t understand Pike being junk fish. Carp is here and I understand carp but not northern pike. My assumption the pike are threatening a native species. If you catch carp here you have to kill them and call the dept. of wildlife.

[Lamar]

 I fish for pike when up in northern Canada. When weeds are heavy use a silver minnow. I have a split tail mold from Do-it and I make up a lot of green, white and orange tails and thread them on the hook. It gives it great side to side action. I also smash the barb down so it's easier to release the pike. On a good day those things will wear your arms out. I love it that most other fisherman won't fish for them. We'll take a few hours each day and target them. Pike up there don't see that very often and normally we have a blast doing it. We never eat them because walleye's are plentiful there too. When my dad was alive and would go with us about once a week he'd get a pike and want it for shore lunch. They were a little more fishy tasting but I liked it. Sitting up north on an island with a camp fire cooking fish, home fries and a can of bake beans drinking a Blue Label. It's all good then.

[ctom]

"When my dad was alive and would go with us about once a week he'd get a pike and want it for shore lunch. They were a little more fishy tasting but I liked it. Sitting up north on an island with a camp fire cooking fish, home fries and a can of bake beans drinking a Blue Label. It's all good then."....
Lamar

I used to spring bear hunt north of Kenora Ontario each spring with two buddies. They're both dead now, but I still have pictures from back then. We always enjoyed c/r the big pike up there at mid-day when the bear were resting. We'd paddle-troll for lake trout and do the shore lunch just like you Lamar except we did Labatt's blue and Chevas and water with the water dipped right out of the lake next to the ice sheet. Oh the memories.

[Lamar]

I used to spring bear hunt north of Kenora Ontario each spring with two buddies. They're both dead now, but I still have pictures from back then. We always enjoyed c/r the big pike up there at mid-day when the bear were resting. We'd paddle-troll for lake trout and do the shore lunch just like you Lamar except we did Labatt's blue and Chevas and water with the water dipped right out of the lake next to the ice sheet. Oh the memories.
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 My dad use to stay the summers up by Kenora over looking Lake of the Woods. That's a pretty area.

[ctom]

Lots has changed since I spent time up there in the early 70's chasing bear. Kenora was the last civilization before a mile north would put a guy in wilderness unless he found a highway. We often camped at a mile post 68 on a gravel logging road near a lake west a  bit south of Kenora and could hear chainsaws all day but never could find the source of the noise while driving and taking in the sites....uncanny how far and clear the sound travels up there where there's zero other noise pollution. The northern lights were real common at night and without any light pollution those suckers were just plain something unreal and would last for hours if not all night. If a person hasn't seen northern lights just before sunrise he hasn't seen squat.

We'd come home from camping and hunting in those pine woods for a week to ten days and my wife would say my clothes reeked of pine scent. lol Its a different world up there and wonderful really. I'm really happy I had the chances to take it in when while I was young.

[billygee]

Nothing Wrong with Northern Pike,

being in the same family as the Walleye, and Musky.
Being a Y-bone fish there are a lot of Video's on how to fillet them
From my reads I would be more concerned on the Snakehead, 
and Asian Carp invasion species that are threatening our waters.

billygee

[andrewlamberson]

Pike the weeds.....

Go buy a couple of those really expensive frogs (for bass fishing the "slop") and throw it without a steel leader. I guarantee you pike hits!

They also love all of the Do-it frogs, especially if you make them laminates with special eyes, the more work the better!

or

I like to use the Berry Bug on a slightly weighted hook (with a big gap!) and I always use the tieableTyGer steel leader if I really want to land Pike.

It seems that the smaller the Pike...the sharper the teeth.

[Lamar]

Pike the weeds.....

Go buy a couple of those really expensive frogs (for bass fishing the "slop") and throw it without a steel leader. I guarantee you pike hits!

They also love all of the Do-it frogs, especially if you make them laminates with special eyes, the more work the better!

or

I like to use the Berry Bug on a slightly weighted hook (with a big gap!) and I always use the tieableTyGer steel leader if I really want to land Pike.

It seems that the smaller the Pike...the sharper the teeth.

 It always seems the best pike of the trip comes just as you are about to land a really nice walleye.