Unusual ways you caught a pike

tell us the more unusual methods used to catch pike. Either by design or accident.

I tried a float ledgered Big S lure on a river last week and a jack snaffled it. The action was very enticing with the constant change to the pace of the water causing the lure to rise and fall.

Last summer I had a terrible run of blanks, I decided to take the lad down the local cut to get him interested in angling, we'd fished for around an hour on pinkies and caught a good mixed bag of skimmers & small perch, I decide to change bait to corn, as I started reeling in to change bait the line strained, there was no movement on the rod and it just felt like I'd hooked a plastic Asda bag, as the bag surfaced it came a live but only slightly and low n behold it was a jack of about 3Lb, it had taken two pinkies on a sixe 18 hook, unbelievable, I'd been out for weeks running up to this and had nothing, I still felt I had'nt broke the blank though coz I had'nt gone out to target pike, but they all count.....

trying to think back over the years caught pike on worms , maggots. bread trotting down a river, used to do a bit of match fishing in my twentys cant remember the water had about 30 roach or dace in my keepnet pulled it in to weigh in there was a pike caught by its teeth at the bottom on the outside of the net obviosly trying to get at the fish in the net

Maybe it was just into fishnets Stubbo

adie1200 wrote:Maybe it was just into fishnets Stubbo

well in adie

on a day chubbing when i caught no chub i had a pike on bread flake


and a bream on a mackeral strip

stubbo wrote:trying to think back over the years caught pike on worms , maggots. bread trotting down a river, used to do a bit of match fishing in my twentys cant remember the water had about 30 roach or dace in my keepnet pulled it in to weigh in there was a pike caught by its teeth at the bottom on the outside of the net obviosly trying to get at the fish in the net

have you been reading my logs Stubbo
had same sort of things.
once had one jump into my lap as i pulled a roach in on a whip

Once caught one on a deadbait, nothing unusual you might think but it was on a forum fish in

Steve French wrote:Once caught one on a deadbait, nothing unusual you might think but it was on a forum fish in

Now that is a rare pike Steve

did some on bacon out Hull way once

esoxjeff wrote:did some on bacon out Hull way once

These Hull big girls will scoff owt...

was carp fishing once and had a few twitches on the swinger, it carried on for about 10 mins so thought nuff is enough and struck...... nothing. i was fishing around 80 yard out and as i wound in fast i new something small was on the other end as i got it close in i could see it was a roach around 8oz, just ready to swing it in when bang mr pike takes it????? not big around 5lb but its the only pike i have ever had from this water
p.s this was also from a hull water

Andy Webster wrote:tell us the more unusual methods used to catch pike. Either by design or accident.

I tried a float ledgered Big S lure on a river last week and a jack snaffled it. The action was very enticing with the constant change to the pace of the water causing the lure to rise and fall.

That's some proper fishing Andy. Bit of innovative thought paid off. I take my hat off to you for having the balls to try it.