What pop ups do you use

adie1200 wrote:If they can dissolve the bones of a 4lb plus pike i'm sure a balsa stick would be no problem

Andy Macfarlane wrote:

tc wrote:i can understand how they work but they just seem so unnatural to me surely they would put the pike of, because in coarse fishing its all about hideing your end tackle.

Put them off like something they've never encountered like a half mackerel or a fluorescent pink shad?

Mate, I use size 4 red VMC trebles, black swivels and clips, silver paperclips, 3-4oz leads, green wire, bright orange pop-ups, sea-baits and on my distance rig, fluoro yellow line. There's no getting away from the fact the fact, it's pretty easy to see and yet, I still still catch my fair share of pike.

I also connect my jerkbaits to 180lb steel wire and the lure doesn't really behave like any fish I've ever seen swim and we haven't even looked at the colours. I use black, white fluoro pink, sunburst and all manner of colours but yet the pike stil fancies a crack at them.

Andy Macfarlane wrote:Not a problem. I was merely illustrating a point. Pike aren't that fussed by odd looking tackle.