More Hints and Tips on Pike Fishing

Last winter we had a thread for hints and tips on pike fishing. It was so popular the results were added to the website www.pikeangler.co.uk/articles/hints_and_tips

So I thought I'd start a new thread.

My Tip: If your baits have been sitting untouched on the bottom all day, try drifting one in mid water.

Andy

Good tip that Andy

Can't remember who said it to me...hmmm

my tip is, when you buy any dead baits when using balsa sticks to pop-up, insert the balsa sticks into the dead bait before freezing...

Don't be scared to try something new
No matter how weird it might seem

I was fishing with a few mates a few weeks ago when one of them ( a newbi to piking )
after casting his lure for a while and not getting anything he put a pike float on with the lure just the same as you would with a deadbait and cast into the river and let it drift down with the flow and after a couple of runs through he hit into a nice pike of just short or 20lb

Just goes to show that anything can work on the day

when fishing deadbaits every few minutes twitch the bait back a couple of foot it can produce a fish or two

Don't buy Savage Gear trebbles...

After having one straighten on me whilst playing a good fish a coupole of weekends ago I don't trust them at all now...

If you buy fresh fish to freeze, Sardines, Macky etc, cut up some of your old bait very finley, you can use fresh ones too for this, make sure the pieces are as small as a 5p piece, use a small freezer bag for each fish, put some of the pieces in the bag, along with a fresh fish, lay the fresh fish so that its laid on the pieces and freeze, there you have a bait with extra ground bait, when it thaws in the water the pieces remain around your bait

Steve French wrote:If you buy fresh fish to freeze, Sardines, Macky etc, cut up some of your old bait very finley, you can use fresh ones too for this, make sure the pieces are as small as a 5p piece, use a small freezer bag for each fish, put some of the pieces in the bag, along with a fresh fish, lay the fresh fish so that its laid on the pieces and freeze, there you have a bait with extra ground bait, when it thaws in the water the pieces remain around your bait

Now there's a cracking idea mate

Steve French wrote:If you buy fresh fish to freeze, Sardines, Macky etc, cut up some of your old bait very finley, you can use fresh ones too for this, make sure the pieces are as small as a 5p piece, use a small freezer bag for each fish, put some of the pieces in the bag, along with a fresh fish, lay the fresh fish so that its laid on the pieces and freeze, there you have a bait with extra ground bait, when it thaws in the water the pieces remain around your bait

that is a really good idea i will be trying that

tootall wrote:

Steve French wrote:If you buy fresh fish to freeze, Sardines, Macky etc, cut up some of your old bait very finley, you can use fresh ones too for this, make sure the pieces are as small as a 5p piece, use a small freezer bag for each fish, put some of the pieces in the bag, along with a fresh fish, lay the fresh fish so that its laid on the pieces and freeze, there you have a bait with extra ground bait, when it thaws in the water the pieces remain around your bait

Now there's a cracking idea mate

That is a good one that Steve,

one of them oidz Magnets come in handy,,,,, dispite their small size thery are very strong and good for finding them hooks in the long grass,

Andy Webster wrote:Can't remember who said it to me...hmmm

me

deadbait wrote:

Steve French wrote:If you buy fresh fish to freeze, Sardines, Macky etc, cut up some of your old bait very finley, you can use fresh ones too for this, make sure the pieces are as small as a 5p piece, use a small freezer bag for each fish, put some of the pieces in the bag, along with a fresh fish, lay the fresh fish so that its laid on the pieces and freeze, there you have a bait with extra ground bait, when it thaws in the water the pieces remain around your bait

that is a really good idea i will be trying that

it works with a p.v.a. bag as well put a bit of fish oil in the bag first then just hook it on your bottom treble.............happy days