| Northern Canadian Pike are reputed to be | | | | pockets on the lake water. If you have to |
| among the wiliest fish around the globe. You | | | | retrieve a hard jerkbait, try to do so as |
| can be sure that the huge Northern Canadian | | | | close to structure as possible. Wind the lure |
| Pike at the end of your rod, thrashing away, | | | | down and jerk it three or so times and pause. |
| is giving you among the hardest and most | | | | Generally the colder the water gets the |
| challenging catches you have ever experienced | | | | longer you should wait. Nick the tops of the |
| in your angling career as an adventurous | | | | weeds, scrape the rocks and tick the logs and |
| fisherman. | | | | stumps. Pike usually strike when the when the |
| | | | lure suspends, rises slowly or starts its |
| These fish sure know where to hide and how to | | | | next series of jerks. |
| fight. Where and how do you find them | | | | |
| throughout the fishing season? | | | | If your fishing trip takes you during the mid |
| | | | summer time periods - you will promptly find |
| If you can find the Pike in a less | | | | that the Northern Pikes go deep and deeper. |
| belligerent mode or when you are fishing | | | | Troll hard jerkbaits around rocky main lake |
| areas of lakes that where the water is | | | | points and over the tops of mid lake humps. |
| "stained", a prop bait like a Splash-Tail | | | | Contour trolling behind three way rigs can be |
| that will sputter across the surface will | | | | among the most deadly hot weather tactics for |
| cause the Pike to make that stab. Pop baits | | | | attracting and landing those "big ones". You |
| can also be deadly when the killer Pike are | | | | can also try rigging a large soft 9 inch Shad |
| resting beside isolated forms of cover such | | | | on a stout 5 offset hook without any other |
| as giant deadheads poking their nose above | | | | additional weight. Let it flutter toward |
| the waters. | | | | bottom after casting. Then hop. Pop, twitch |
| | | | and pause your lures continually to imitate a |
| If you wait until the water is good and cold, | | | | baitfish that is more than in trouble and |
| such as may well occur in the late fall | | | | indeed may be in its death throes. Along weed |
| season or in the early springtime you may | | | | edges swim the lure through the grass |
| well have great luck with the Pike of the | | | | deflecting it off any stalks that you can |
| seas. The Pike can best be found around rock | | | | feel. Do the same when you are fishing an |
| structures. You might well try to catch a | | | | open corridor of lake water between the tops |
| jerkbait during these cold water spring or | | | | of deep and deeper weeds and the surface of |
| late fall time fishing expeditions. The | | | | the water? Let if fall and then let it pop |
| jerkbaits are not snagless, but you can throw | | | | back to the water's surface. |
| a hard jerk, if there are only a few feet of | | | | |
| water over the top of those deep weeds. | | | | All in all Northern Canadian Pike fish are |
| | | | among the wiliest fish that you will run |
| Some fishing experts will recommend soft | | | | across in your fishing expeditions - whether |
| jerkbaits rigged Texas style. If the water | | | | it be at any time during the year - spring, |
| vegetation is relatively sparse these can be | | | | summer or fall. |
| deadly especially if there are plenty of open | | | | |