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