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| don't blame me if theirs already a topic of this because i cant find much about this on google. I fish a lake with some nice sized pike. a month ago i caught a 24" 5lb pike with a 3" crankbait. i know their are some monsters their that make that fish look like a minnow. But i like throwing big baits for musky and pike. Will most pike (even if their not monsters) eat a 8" bucktail, 7" crank, 7-9" suicks, 6-8" topwaters, and bulldawgs. Because throwing those baits are more fun then catching them on bass baits. So the big question is will pike from 20"-monster sized eat musky sized baits. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Yes. |
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Location: MN | :) 
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| Lol that thing is half the size of that lure. |
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| Can't keep pike off of gliders! Drives me nuts! Pike love suicks too |
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Location: WI | 2 days ago I caught a 20" musky and an 18" pike on a 9" Suick. Both in the span of 10 minutes. |
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Location: Lake St.Clair | They sure do... the other day I caught a small channel cat on a glide |
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Location: Canada | I'm headed to the cottage this weekend to target the pike in the lake with my musky tackle. I catch most of them on a glider that runs deeper than most, got a couple new ones to try out (a non-soft tail version and a one off small non soft tail version). I've caught them on musky spinnerbaits and small musky cranks (tuff shads, krusher's etc.). Also going to try some bigger cranks by LML this weekend and in another couple weeks when I go back again. |
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Location: MN | I wish I could find the pic I had of a 5 or 6 pound pike hanging on my 2 pounder! If its big and rubber a pike will almost surly wreck it! |
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| Pike loves big baits, definitely here in Europe.
Still on the hunt for a 50" pike, but the 42" i caught jigging a reg bondy was still alot of fun, :P |
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| Pike really seem to like the erratic baits, especially gliders and minnowbaits. I've caught them on straight line stuff too, but the erratic stuff really seems to trip their trigger. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Yup, Pike of all sizes LOVE to eat Suicks. |
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| Brad P - 6/28/2013 8:15 AM Pike really seem to like the erratic baits, especially gliders and minnowbaits. I've caught them on straight line stuff too, but the erratic stuff really seems to trip their trigger. X2 Caught 7 pike last night between a 6" phantom and a 8" minnow bait, they were between 22 and 32 inches so not big fish. Quote of the night from my buddy regarding this subject, "I hate using suicks because the pike won't leave them alone!" |
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| I once caught a 20" pike on a 9" Grandma. A messy situation, I tell you. But I got him back in the water alive. I've caught 30"-32"ers on 8" Believers and 7.5" Grandmas. But even going for big pike I would level off my presentations at 6". If, that is, you want good numbers. |
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| I will say I've had better luck on really big pike with more straightline stuff. My biggest to date on the metro was on Super Model trolled at 5MPH. Naturally I was furious that my monster rip had white spots and green skin... Had a slightly smaller pike inhale a mag dawg on opening weekend. Hit almost took the rod out of my hands. Imagine my dismay when I saw what it was after such a monster strike...
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| I had about a 25" pike nail a pounder at the side of the boat 2 days ago. Pike seem to go after just about everything no matter their size. |
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Location: Iowa | Last fall I got a 30" pike on a 2 pounder....stupid fish anyway....he took about 4" of the tail clean off... |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Here is a nice fat pike I caught on a metro MN lake on a Double cowgirl in 4 ft of water.
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Location: Minnesota. | FAT-SKI - 6/28/2013 11:34 AM
Here is a nice fat pike I caught on a metro MN lake on a Double cowgirl in 4 ft of water.
SKI, that's one NICE pike...anyplace!! They're fun... just not a....
:-)) - but they're fun! |
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Location: Savage, MN | In my expierence they will hit on just about anything. In my boat the "pike fishing already" jokes start when somebody puts on either a Suick or Shallow Invader, both the biggest pike producing musky baits in the boat. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Jeremy - 6/28/2013 1:26 PM
FAT-SKI - 6/28/2013 11:34 AM
Here is a nice fat pike I caught on a metro MN lake on a Double cowgirl in 4 ft of water.
SKI, that's one NICE pike...anyplace!! They're fun... just not a....
:- ) ) - but they're fun!
Thanks man, Yeah I actually cherrish that catch for many reasons. One of my Personal favorite days on the water without question. |
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Location: Freedom, WI | More than a few 30" to 35" pike has fallen for BucketHead size HardHeads. Sent a few to Europe for the pike guys over there also. |
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| I have no problem catching pike on muskie baits. I dont think you can really go 'too big' either. Those things will try to eat anything that moves. Ive caught a few 40+ inch northerns usually on big jerk baits or inline spinners while muskie fishing. And i get annoyed by the small northerns that chew up my bulldawgs. |
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| For those of you catching all of those "peskie and annoying" pike......how many of you are catching these after dark either casting or trolling?
Over the past 20-some years....through my readings and research...I've read and been "told" that Pike don't quite have the same nocturnal hunting capabilities and eye sight for night feeding that Muskie do. Obviously muskies feed and track a bait/prey very well at night both with their lateral line and eyesight.
Is it true that Pike aren't quite the feeders after dark that the muskies are? Or is that all just bar talk and folk-lore?
Heading north to an inland Michigan lake for some multi-species fishing again this Summer. A lake known and proven to a lot of Pike and some muskie. Would just like to find some action...anything from the panfish, bass, walleye, pike and will try too for some muskie. |
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| Also caught a 17 inch pike on my 12 inch suick :P |
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| 2 days ago, a guy in the boat nailed a 37 inch pike on a 13" bait. Only musky fishermen will say "it's just a pike". |
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| Here is a pike that ate a TI Nokken last year on west Okoboji.
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Location: Plymouth, MN | Caught 4 pike yesterday on big rubber, 2 of them were so small there was barely enough room for the hook in their mouths. They will chase anything.
There is nothing more disappointing to me than that split second when you get a nice sized fish close enough to the boat to see that its JUST a pike. |
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| I spend a week on Vermilion each fall trolling 14" Jakes for musky and I have caught many pike between 28" and 40". They love the wide wobble at high speed. (5mph) |
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| When I'm out targeting big pike I don't throw anything but muskie baits. My best producers for 40+ inch pike are 7.5" phantom soft-tails and Double 10's. If they're deeper I usually throw a deeper running jerkbait or a magnum bulldawg. Pike have bigger appetites then muskies (at least from what I've seen) and will take big baits year round. The trick is finding a water body that still has big pike. Most of the ones in Wisconsin seem to be full of snakes due to the "kill em all" regulations in place for most of the State. |
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