The pike is an interesting predator, having recognized the habits of which you will think about whether you had caught this toothy beauty up to this point. All fish are pretty predictable except for pike. This predator can grab anything and even at any time of the day or night, although it is generally believed that pike do not hunt at night. Sometimes it is well caught on imitation of crucian carp, and sometimes on perch. How can fishing regularly become the owner of this trophy? Let's look at the features of pike fishing using spinning.
Pike Fishing Lures
Lures are divided into artificial and natural (live). The first of them are most often used with spinning. They are divided into:
- wobblers;
- oscillating and rotating baubles;
- silicone bait.
All of the above lures are pretty catchy, but they will not catch fish by themselves. Each bait needs its own approach - a certain speed of posting or jerks of different rigidity with a fishing rod. Some bait needs to be carried out on top, and some, on the contrary, as deep as possible. If, for example, baits are intended for catching pikes for spinning in stagnant water, then it makes no sense to use them in fast currents. In general, catching pike and other types of fish with artificial bait is quite interesting in mastering and revealing certain secrets.
Some features of wobblers
Let's start with wobblers. They currently have a wide range of varieties for each type of fishing, for each predatory fish. An artificial bait called a wobbler, on the one hand, is quite simple, and on the other, it is more complicated than all types of other baits for fishing a predator.
Wobblers are made most often from plastic, less often from a valuable type of wood (balsa). Everything is clear with plastic, but baits made of balsa are quite expensive, since this type of wood does not grow everywhere. And the first wobblers were made of this material. Why is it a rare kind of wood? The answer is pretty simple. Dried balsa is a very soft, pliable and lightweight material, of which it is easiest to make a reusable bait. That was before plastic. When plastic began to be used everywhere, manufacturers realized that this material was more profitable.
Types of Wobblers
Wobblers are divided into sinking, floating and with neutral buoyancy. For a certain type of fishing, lures are trolling (deep) and for casting. Trolling wobblers are more often used when fishing from a motor boat or when moving on water with the help of oars. This type of trolling is called a “track”. You can catch pike for spinning with deep wobblers even in casting, finding a suitable place. The main rule, which is recommended to be guided by, is casting from the shore into deep and large pits. Wobbler, reaching you, should work steadily and work out all the wiring. It should not begin to fall to the side at your feet due to lack of depth.
Spinning and casting baits are used for sinking and swimming. It is best to take with neutral buoyancy. This characteristic of the bait allows you to pause the wiring and stop the wobbler in a specific place and at the depth that is needed at the moment. Floating models are more often used in those periods when water bodies are overgrown with dense vegetation and it is simply impossible to draw bait, except on top. Sinking models are used to deepen the bait from the very beginning of the posting to a certain depth.
Jig fishing
Jig - a method of catching predatory fish on silicone baits or swinging baits. Often, fishermen using such devices are called dzhigits. Silicone lures for catching pike on a spinning are varied. Sometimes they copy the shape of fish or worms. Most often, silicone baits have an unlike shape. To catch pike, vibro-tails or a twister are almost always used. The vibro-tail follows the shape of the fish’s body, and the twister looks more like a worm with an elongated thin tail, which plays during posting.
When jigging, stepped wiring is almost always applied at the bottom of the pond. The fisherman tears the bait from the bottom of the pond by a sharp rise of the rod up, pauses and repeats the same movement, simultaneously reeling up the sagging cord with a reel. Fish often react to such wiring. The longer the pause after undermining the bait, the greater the chance that the fisherman will get a bite.
Spinning and swinging baits
Hovering bait - the easiest artificial bait for fishing predatory fish. At the same time, it is often simple, at first glance, baubles can help "get away from zero" and catch good trophy fish. For rivers, fishermen take elongated spinners (uralka, atom). For ponds without a current, spoon-shaped spinners are suitable. Such a predator, like a pike, likes volumetric baits more. For this reason, with the size of the baubles you can not grind. The posting of oscillating baubles varies from fishing conditions, depth, course and type of fish. You can use either a semblance of jig wiring, or active wiring or dragging along the bottom.
Spinning baits very often help out in bezlevy. The fish responds well to the rotation of the spinner petal and is happy to grab such a bait. Posting when fishing for pike on a spinning rod from the shore is most often uniform, sometimes with small pauses. The winding speed of the fishing line must be varied. The slower the line is wound around the reel, the deeper our baubles will go. Slow posting on the verge of breaking a spinner game will bring more bites than fast posting.
Catching pike in spring
Spinning in March is very difficult. Freezing begins, but the real fisherman does not stop the time of year. When in spring the ice disappears and the water warms up to 5 degrees, the pike goes to spawn. After this period, the fish is sick for a couple of weeks and practically does not react to anything. As soon as she comes to her senses, pike fishing begins in the spring for spinning. Spawning and recovering, a hungry fish grabs everything that moves. It is preferable to use baits at this time to quickly catch the fishing place. If the pike did not respond after a dozen casts, you need to look for another place.
First of all, the fish will be active in snags and near the reeds. For catching pikes in the spring on a spinning rod, it is best to use any spin-free spinners. Expensive wobblers are not suitable, since in such sections of rivers you can easily say goodbye to them. It can also be used for fishing and jig on an offset hook.
Pike fishing in summer
In summer, it is quite difficult to catch a pike due to the temperature of the water and the large number of tourists on the banks of our rivers. A higher chance appears in the morning and evening. In the hot season, unlike spring or autumn, baits should be as passive as possible.
Best for pike fishing in summer, surface wobblers, poppers, walkers and lures with minimal depth are suitable for spinning, so as not to cling to the grass carpet at the fishing place. In the heat, if the pike eats, it is very picky. Many times she does not attack the same bait.
Pike fishing in the fall
In autumn, the chances of catching a trophy specimen of pike increase significantly. The reasons for pike activity at this time are quite simple. The predator feels the winter and does not stop hunting until the first ice. You can catch in the fall both on wobblers, and on a variety of spinners or jig silicone baits.
Posting the bait when fishing for pike on a spinning rod in the fall is made smooth with prolonged pauses. When using wobblers with neutral buoyancy, they can last up to 20 seconds. It is on pauses or on the verge of disrupting the game that the pike bait attacks the spinner provided to it. Thus, it is better to abandon quickly pop-up or quickly sinking lures and give free rein to fighters with neutral buoyancy.
River and reservoir fishing
The river is a complex natural object. To successfully catch pike or any other fish, you need to thoroughly study the pond. Knowing the location of the edge or large pit, the location of snags or any other bottom anomalies, you can successfully fish without an echo sounder.
When fishing on the river, first of all, you need to take time off the coastal areas and fan out all the depths in the selected places. It does not matter how to catch promising points - wobblers, silicone fish or spinners. If you manage to stumble upon a predator, then the greedy bite will not keep you waiting long.
At different times of the year, promising river sections change. Some features of fishing are also determined by the weather. For example, on a cloudy day fishing for pike on the river with a spinning rod will bring more bites than in sultry heat. On a very hot day, pike bites are so rare that it’s easier to switch to catching some other fish.
The reservoir seems to be a constant and practically unchanging body of water, but catching a predator here is an order of magnitude more difficult. In stagnant water, pike almost never sticks to the coastline and in most cases lives at decent depths, so fishing for pike on a spinning rod from the shore in reservoirs is less prey.
Due to the fact that it is more difficult to find fish in a large body of water, fishermen use an echo sounder. With him and with a motor boat, everything is much simpler. Having found promising areas, you need to properly catch them. At great depths, either jig fishing for silicone fish is used, or trolling for large deep wobblers and spinners. The activity of the predator on the reservoir is as much dependent on the weather as on the river, so fishermen most often go for a trophy in cloudy weather.
About boats and motors
Fishing from a boat is most often practiced in large open spaces - on large rivers (Dnieper, Volga) or large reservoirs (Rybinskoe, Samara). When buying a boat, first of all, you need to decide what composition you will go fishing. After choosing the right size, you need to figure out whether the boat with the motor will fit into the trunk of the car.
The outboard motor should be chosen in the same way, taking into account the number of people in the boat and the total weight of all that is on the water. If catching pike from a boat to spinning is to be near the shore, or if you can reach the promising sections of the river by car, then it is better to take a small economical outboard motor for short movements on the water. In those cases when fishing is far ahead and you need to overcome a decent number of kilometers, it is recommended to take powerful motors that will take you to the fishing spot in no time.
Auxiliary devices for fishing
Using auxiliary equipment for pike fishing simplifies the fishing process itself and in some way makes it more interesting. One of the best tools to help when fishing for pike on a spinning rod is an echo sounder. It is not just a fishing device. This is an interesting thing from which to tear your eyes away while sitting in a boat is almost impossible.
A correct and good device should show the depth above you and the topography of the bottom. More advanced echo sounders show the presence of fish in the place of fishing and what the bottom of the pond consists of. There are a lot of varieties of sensors. They differ in additional functions that simplify the use of this device.
Pike Tricks
From the whole variety of tricks for catching a toothy beauty, you need to highlight three main points that will help make your fishing a success. Visual control of the surface of the reservoir is the main rule of successful fishing both from the boat and from the shore. A pike is often thrown out of the water, attacking the victim. If you toss a bait at such a moment to the place of the fish splash, the bite will not take long.
Communication with other fishermen is the second most important action that you need to perform for successful fishing. Be sure to ask a colleague about what colors or types of lures are currently best for pike. Some fishermen in large water areas use binoculars to spy on what is better for pecking fish from a neighbor in the water. Well, the main trick in catching pike on a spinning rod in early spring and at other times of the year is persistence, faith in yourself and in the bait that you use.