all season pike fishing?

alreet chaps
just wondering how many of you target pike all year round? and what you think to summer pike fishing right or wrong?
i do a bit of lure fishing in summer you cant beat the buzz when a pike big or small smashes into surface lure
cheers wymo

ill be aving a go lure fishing in summer wymo never done before know sum good venues mate ..get together mate

One of those thing you should judge on merit. A big glacial water can probably take fishing all year round, as can many of the big reservoirs and rivers but some dykes, runoffs, canals, ponds etc. can suffer badly from oxygen depletion and it's these venues you have to be wary of.
just choose you venue with a bit of care and make sure all your unhooking/weighing gear is at the ready. Get your fish on the bank, onto a wet mat, weigh, snap and back carefully. Support the fish for a bit if need be and don't be in a hurry to let the fish go. Some fish drift away and then roll over some distance from the bank and you might not be able to get to them. Keep a loose but firm grip round the tail root of the fish, support the head and only let it go once it really coils up ready to go. You'll know when.

...Andy...

fished all year round in past but PIKE CARE must be at its best at all times.
my findings were that August was just too much on both fish and angler,
so i no long fish for pike if its very hot(rare i know)
IF you are in any DOUBT about a pikes health in hot weather then PLEASE leave them alone.

Yeah, i would imagine they are more Feisty & fight to exhaustion in the warmer water, like Barbel do. I can understand that oxygen levels will be low in small waters also.

I remember the hot Summer of 1976 & match fishing on Ramsey Drain Nr. Cambridge. It was so hot the Bream were lolling along aimlessly with their dorsal fins sticking out of the water. God was it hot! Spent all the day wandering up & down the bank to a solitary farmhouse where the farmers wife happily filled peoples bottle's with water.

What about fishing the bait at the begining of september? (a month before the october-march season starts?) to me the month of september is when low pressure starts and the autum/winter begins to roll in
would it be possible if it was a chilly day without risking the pike?

esoxjeff wrote:fished all year round in past but PIKE CARE must be at its best at all times.
my findings were that August was just too much on both fish and angler,
so i no long fish for pike if its very hot(rare i know)
IF you are in any DOUBT about a pikes health in hot weather then PLEASE leave them alone.

your spot on there jeff it takes quite a few years of pike fishing to realize this is the case

MrMakk wrote:What about fishing the bait at the begining of september? (a month before the october-march season starts?) to me the month of september is when low pressure starts and the autum/winter begins to roll in
would it be possible if it was a chilly day without risking the pike?

tbh alex i normally start doing alot of piking as soon as daytime temps are consistently below 17 degrees.... usually mid-late sept. the pike are still feeding really well but you dont need a thermal suit to keep warm

I give them a big rest until October dust down mi tackle, root around in the freezer then i'm off
.......Then pack it all away in March.
Well i borrow my reels but pack the rest away.