Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317521
07/30/21 06:53 PM
07/30/21 06:53 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
"Minka"
|
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
I like deer hair mouse flies, but they're a lot of work to tie, and pike's teeth tend to shred them.
When pike are in shallow water, they will take a surface fly as readily as sub-surface lure, I've found.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317535
07/30/21 07:04 PM
07/30/21 07:04 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 16,150 Tennessee
Scuba1
"color blind Kraut"
|
"color blind Kraut"
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 16,150
Tennessee
|
I don't know if you can get the mepps here with the black stripe in the middle and red rib like looking things but I have caught most of my pike with those by far.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Hodagtrapper]
#7317539
07/30/21 07:11 PM
07/30/21 07:11 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 574 Mi
JohnnyY
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 574
Mi
|
Many fine options above. I like 5 of diamonds and Johnson Silver minnows the best.
Chris Many fine options above. I like 5 of diamonds and Johnson Silver minnows the best.
Chris X2 and #5 blue body silver blade blue fox spinners in the weed edges
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317541
07/30/21 07:16 PM
07/30/21 07:16 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,271 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,271
james bay frontierOnt.
|
I had good luck with a beetlespin or a rattling rap with a yellow jig tail when the spoons wont produce.
If you can use live bait,a couple big sucker minnows on a pickerel rig works good too.I like this set up in the river.
Last edited by Boco; 07/30/21 07:19 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317542
07/30/21 07:18 PM
07/30/21 07:18 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,641 Williamsport, Pa.
jk
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,641
Williamsport, Pa.
|
Cleo, chug bug, most all the original storm lures, In-line spinners, spinner baits, buzz baits, grandma plug, most any lure with irregular retrieve. Put some life into it. Oh and bass assassins' and the like. They also like nightcrawlers......jk
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317580
07/30/21 08:08 PM
07/30/21 08:08 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 19,932 SEPA
Lugnut
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 19,932
SEPA
|
We used to stay at a place near the Nagagami River about an hour west of Hearst, Ontario. Been a few years since I was up,. We'd fish the lakes in the area; Big Skunk Lake, Fisher Lake, Arnot Lake, camped out on Mink Lake a couple of nights. We'd stay up for a week and caught pike by the hundreds.
One one lake, Eureka maybe, they were hitting so good I tried just about every lure in my tackle box just so I could say I caught pike on them.
About the most exciting fishing I ever had was on one of the area lakes where the grass in the coves grew within a few inches of the surface. You had to speed burn 3.5" Dardevles to keep them up above the weeds. You'd see wakes coming from ten-fifteen feet away before they slammed the spoons. About wore my arms out cranking those suckers in!
Eh...wot?
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317667
07/30/21 09:24 PM
07/30/21 09:24 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,666 Wisconsin
Green Bay
OP
trapper
|
OP
trapper
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,666
Wisconsin
|
Thanks for the responses. Your thoughts are very close to what I have found to be awesome pike spoons.
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Moosetrot]
#7317675
07/30/21 09:29 PM
07/30/21 09:29 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,981 Rock Springs, WI
Zim
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,981
Rock Springs, WI
|
When I was a kid the best thing for Northerns when they were coming up the creek was the biggest treble hook we could get our hands on. Moosetrot Ya always was a man ahead of the times Moosie. zim
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: Green Bay]
#7317818
07/31/21 12:08 AM
07/31/21 12:08 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 830 West coast of Iowa
iaduckhntr
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 830
West coast of Iowa
|
with a pork rine iffn ya'll can still find any, a 1oz. Mr. champ with a red or yellow buck tail trailer kastmaster is the same as a Mr. champ Dennis
Old 8 toes~~ life ITA and NRA member Life in the fast lane is no place for a tricycle!
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: iaduckhntr]
#7317835
07/31/21 12:58 AM
07/31/21 12:58 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 16,261 Iowa
~ADC~
The Count
|
The Count
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 16,261
Iowa
|
with a pork rine iffn ya'll can still find any, a 1oz. Mr. champ with a red or yellow buck tail trailer kastmaster is the same as a Mr. champ Dennis If its weedy you can't beat a Rapala weedless spoon with a long pork bass strip. Not sure if you can buy either these days. If its not weedy, I'm in the 5 of diamonds camp.
|
|
|
Re: Best Northern Pike Spoon?
[Re: iaduckhntr]
#7317974
07/31/21 09:26 AM
07/31/21 09:26 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,516 La Crosse, WI
Macthediver
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,516
La Crosse, WI
|
with a pork rine iffn ya'll can still find any, a 1oz. Mr. champ with a red or yellow buck tail trailer kastmaster is the same as a Mr. champ Dennis If you can't find pork rind, make your own from strip of beaver tail. I've caught lot different fish including northerns using strip white gristle from beaver tail..I think there are even people selling it now. Another one them things I should have done years ago make a buck. Mac
"Never Forget Which Way Is Up"
|
|
|
|
|