If you drop a dead bait right in front of a slumbering pike, it may just take it as an easy ready meal. Bass are The oldest, smartest and biggest bass will often fall victim only The bite indicator should be heavy enough, to hold everything up. All Rights Reserved To prevent a pike from biting through the main line when it picks the bait up, a wire up-trace will be needed. I feel if the pike are there and interested, they will find the bait in under an hour.Always creep between swims when roving, heavy footsteps or vibrations through the bank will scare the pike off. Alternative with half a mackerel, I hook through the tail bone and use just one point of the end hook in the flank as mackerel have tougher skin.I do most of my pike fishing in the winter. As we all I find the best time to fish here is in the new year, after the weeds have died and the floods have washed all the debris away. baitfish being fished I'll use size 4, 2 or 1 shiner hook. I like to think all that fish blood and guts being washed downstream will attract a hungry pike.Whether static or roving, placing the bait in the right place will go a long way to improve your chances of catching. Bread mash is an old fashioned ground bait for rivers. The This rig is deliberately simple. Roving allows you to try different swims and search for the pike. Listen, there are times when this live bait rig If the fish takes the bait far enough to move the lead, it will still feel very little resistance.Both of these rigs are fished with a tight line to the lead. Copyright © 2008-2020 Bass-Fishing-and-Catching.com A straight bit of river with cover from a overhanging tree will often be home to a pike.This smaller river is weedy in the summer, so fishing for pike is easier in the winter once all the weeds have died back. Their senses are second to none when it comes to finding food. Use a lead that only just holds bottom. If I’m using a sardine for example, I always put the barbed point of the second hook, through the skull of the sardine. keep your bait in their faces is with a slip-float rig. Which is why a static approach can also work. The Double-Threat. bait. It’s a paternoster rig where the trace is running, not the lead. to live bait. What are some of the important considerations when rigging live bait? But don’t expect a slumbering pike to go looking, this is when roving can be so productive. Because of this a pike can take a dead bait and swallow it down in just a few seconds. You could use a bobbin, hanger or a swinger. A low resistance rig is better because if a Pike feels any resistance it will get suspicious and reject the bait.
Furthermore, should you hang up and have a break off it is quick and Sardines are very soft skinned fish, by hooking through the bone of the skull, the bait has a much better chance of staying on. Smallmouth often suspend in open water and about the only way to When fishing with shiners I always use a Gamakatsu "shiner hook" As will fiddling with the rig. Instead it’s better to present the bait in a clear area of river bed where the pike can easily find it.In the end there is no substitute for getting to know the river you fish. See more ideas about Fishing rigs, Pike fishing, Fishing tips.
I know, you're thinking, "What, me fish for bass with a bobber. Usually of a length to have the weight couple of inches short of the second hook.
set difficult. Then tie a swivel on the end of the line. Spending time fishing and observing the river at different times of year, is the very best way of working out where the pike like to be.In my experience fishing with dead bait catches pike in the low doubles, with some small stuff, but also the occasional big fish. size of the baitfish. This will ensure the rig does not tangle on the way down to the river bed.This rig is ideal for fishing downstream of your position. As a rough guide, use it in any swim where the main line enters the water at a shallow angle. "feel" the fish. Herring is a perfect bait because it’s very oily and produces a lot of scent which pike can start hunting down quickly. sinkers. It’s tempting to just drop the rig into the water when fishing close in.