The BEST Pike Lures for Beginners! Pike fishing tips & techniques 

Well said.

Definitely and a beginner should look up videos how to handle and unhook a pike. Another tip if you're having trouble unhooking put it back in the net to recover then try again, also don't target pike when the weather is really hot.

youtube is a great resource these days. plenty of videos on how to unhook pike.

enough with all the resting when u catch a pike u lift it out of the water, grab it by the gills.. then make sure it never touches the ground cause that is very bad for their skin.. unhook them and release them... u can do this all in under 30 seconds then 99-100 pike u catch will be fine.. i might take a picture or 2 if i catch a big one.. but never take it out of the water too long. the less handeling time/touching the fish the better.

The ones in your Lidl bag 👍

Savage gear shine glider is one of my favourite lures, similar to 4 play caught loads of pike with them. My favourite lures I use now are from a Polish company wob-art, hand painted hard lures all quite light but can cast them without spooking fish.

Interesting, how do you retrieve the Toby lure?

Is that the z man ones?

So singles are better for fish? Barbed trebles are predominantly used in tournament fishing I wonder why that is? 🤔

I’d use a spinnerbait mate. Blanked for 2 weeks then made some spinnerbaits and had three pike in 3 hrs over 2 days. The vibration they give off how I build them is ridiculous.

Fish slow and deep. The pike is cold now. 15 - 20 cm lures. Curly tails works good now

Shads during winter, top water plugs during summer

Great lure! One of the best lures of all time. Over a 100 years of effectiveness. 😃

Use a wire trace, won’t affect your catch rate and much more peace of mind.

@@leftmono1016 or use heavy flouro/mono and have a much higher catch rate and also do less damage to the fish if it rolls up on the leader. Sick of old fashioned fisherman thinking you need super heavy wire to pike fish.

@@leftmono1016 the fact is a pike is never ever gonna bite through 1mm fluorocarbon.

DonOneBryson - works both ways, I'm sure old school fishermen get sick of kids thinking flouro is some kind of magic invisible bite proof line. Especially when they find bitten off lures in a pike's mouth. I'm not old school or new school to be honest. Only started fishing again last October after throwing some lures off the rocks and thinking I should do something similar back home. Got myself some Drennan coated wire and made up some traces, caught plenty with peace of mind. Only had one really big fish, high double, and that took the lure into its mouth with the trace in its teeth. I'm not convinced catch rate would improve using flouro but I'm open minded enough to give it a try - out of interest how do you tie line that thick, does the usual uni knot work ok or do you have to crimp it somehow. I'll have to do some research.

@@leftmono1016 if you're using regenerator mono it's very supple, you can normally tie a simplified version of an improved clinch knot (ie 3 wraps instead of 7 or 8) it grips itself well and with the tag end melted it will not slip. If you're using fluoro then you have to crimp it cos it's extremely hard to get a decent knot, double crimping is the way forward. I've had pike over 20lbs in the canals of the Netherlands, never even been close to being bitten off but have 100 percent seen an improvement in the number of bites. I'm totally convinced that on a day when the fishing is tough, using the right leader will get you that extra fish. Like I said, the amount of pike you see with fucked up mouths and scarred bodies from wrapping around wire traces is what put me off, when I saw the quality of the fish that the Swedes, Norwegians and dutch are having I was sold. The fact is that line quality has improved tremendously in the past few years, and the high quality flouros and monos are nothing like the stuff of yesteryear.

So odd that you have the same shut

At this time with the coloured water spinner baits are great savage gear da bush is about 35g great colours or the 15cm line through would work

Tom Wass will have to try thanks

Michael - on my river it’s important to fish slack areas out of the main flow. Things like trees and bushes that cause slacks are well worth targeting.

Rapala xrap peto