ghost Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 I have always had great success catching walleye and bass on worm harnesses but yesterday I nailed a pike on one. Of course it broke off pretty much instantly but it was a first for me. He came right to the surface and took it about 2 feet from the shore of the river. Really wish I would of landed it because it would of been the largest pike for me. Easily over 36". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Pike on occasion bite into anything that passes within reach , that's a fact , though we would not use these things purposely to catch them:wink: ! Last year my wife was fishing for carp and tench with chumming baskets rigged onto feeder rods(check gallery "Homemade European Fishing Essentials") , whereas I cast my lures for pike in that same pond ! Whilst reeling in to check bait and chum , she had two chumming baskets bitten off that day by pike , but my lures they wouldn't take:( ! On other occasion we also had them attack our floats on the surface when reeling in to check bait , also caught one or two smaller ones on sweetcorn as bait , meant for carp , bites occured also just when reeling in bait , and being lucky , that the mono leader did not snap . The same thing once also happened with a nightcrawler , rigged for eel ! Even had them pike pick up a piece of a kind of meatpie (Bavarian "Leberk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimcline Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Not surprising, pike will eat almost anything. My first musky came on a worm harness while fishing for saugeyes in an Ohio creek. JIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike-A-Pike Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 One of the reasons I like fishing pike/musky is the aggressive nature of the strikes they can deliver. What beats watching an in-line spinner on a steady retrieve suddenly get ripped sideways 8 feet by a silver/green flash of lightning? And while pike will go after just about anything under the right conditions, it can be a long day when they get tight-lipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
