| There are a few good winter pike fishing secrets | | | | fishing. Use bait that is lively. The pike is predator |
| that will help everyone catch the sough after | | | | and likes to see its food move around. It is the |
| winter fish. Pike are found all over, but it seems | | | | thrill of the kill. If you have to use artificial bait, |
| to be a popular sport fish in a few states during | | | | use something that is going to produce a lot of |
| the winter. The northern states do have some | | | | vibrations and action under water. |
| great fishing holes where ice fishing is the only | | | | Offer the bait in the strike zone. Use a gadget to |
| thing to do during the bitter cold months. Once | | | | find the fish, measure the water depth and the |
| you have all your gear and tackle ready, you just | | | | size of the school. Drill your holes right in the |
| need to know what the other angles do to make | | | | middle of the school. You want to drop right into |
| sure they go come with the fish. | | | | the strike zone. This is going to produce a catch. |
| Finding the pike is one thing, but getting their | | | | Drill two holes about ten feet apart and drop both |
| attention is another. One way to catch a pike | | | | lines within minutes of each. As soon as you have |
| during the winter is by setting up a slammer tip | | | | a bite on one, you can bring that one in and you |
| up with a shiner. Yes, a golden shiner and a | | | | should find another bite on the second line. The |
| slamming tip up is going to get the pike. Some | | | | fish are going to swarm for the first line and go |
| anglers will tell you that this is not how you catch | | | | after the second line as the first one is taken. |
| a pike, but the fact is this method of fishing pike | | | | You could have two fish in a matter of minutes. |
| works just fine. There are a lot of pike to feed | | | | If you have everything set up in the strike zone |
| during the winter and this is how to catch them. | | | | and are not seeing a bite, you may have to |
| You do not have to let the pike bite and run to | | | | change your bait. Pike behave different from day |
| catch them. | | | | to day in the winter. The pike may be sluggish or |
| Pike will live in shallower waters than they do | | | | they might be aggressive and fast. If you are not |
| during the summer. You can fish in waters of | | | | seeing a bite, you may need to change the bait |
| twenty feet to find the pike. It is not always a | | | | for the actions of the pike. Too much vibration or |
| good idea to look at weed beds when fishing for | | | | movement from the bait might turn off a sluggish |
| pike during the winter. They could be lurking the | | | | pike. You need to know the fish. This sounds |
| shallows by dead wood or rocky structures. The | | | | impossible, but with the right equipment, you could |
| shallow waters are where you will find the best | | | | learn the mood of the fish as well. |