Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: TIME FOR A FEW PIKE I THINK
After having a good season last year fishing the wye for barbel ive decided to have a go for the pike this year anybody been fishing around hereford area lately
wouldnt mind seing a few pickies of this lovely river as i havent been near it for months.cant wait to have a go hopefully ill b able to put a few pics off my own up on the site who knows might even be a fish on one of them lol
cant wait myself hoping for this rain to drop off a bit before going tho. Had a big old girl grab a 4lb plus barbel as i was playing it think ill b heading back to that area for a little go
You ain't going to do it with a 3wt that's for sure.
A Dutch fella sent me one of his home made pike flies a few years ago - I couldn't cast that on a 9wt, went out lovely on a mates 15' salmon rod though. Mind you - it was about 8 inches long!
Pike bunnies and big bunny leeches will do the trick and they're castable (just) on heavy reservoir gear provided you're not trying for the horizon.
Had a few jacks out of the Thames on big montanas in my yoof... wasn't keen on taking those home at the time, we were only just downstream of Harwell!
What's your best method for pike then Maggot? _________________ Adam
good old simple float fishing either fishing a half cocked waggler on stillwaters or trotting a pike bob down little glides on a river if i fancy a sit down and a cuppa i might tie a line off my top treble with a lead atached to fish the bait static .dont mind chucking a few lures at them too.so what do they feel like when they ***** into a fly wouldnt mind a go at that ive had carp on a fly rod but its not the same i suppose as theyre just sucking floaters and i dont think my old 6 to 7 weight stradic would be much cop for chucking them bunnies out. i let the old man use it one day and watched (fell over laughing )a big lead head ***** him in the back of the ear i had to compose myself and go and rip it out lol sort of put me off tying a bigun on lol
For rivers use either a lightweight but bulky or floating fly on a short leader and a sinking line - cast down and across, put a big upstream mend in and let the belly of the line sink - then rip it back across the current. The fly doesn't need to be heavy that way. Use an intermediate line if you're on a stillwater unless you can tie weedguards in.
Biggest pike I've had on the fly was only about 7 or 8lb - so nothing enormous. Keep your fingers out of the loops of line once it realises it's hooked - those first few runs are like hooking the back of a passing motorbike! The water I've caught mine in was deep, by the time you've got them up to the surface on fly gear they're pretty much spent. If you can find any shallower water with a good head of pike then you're in for a treat, with nowhere to go but along or up it would be like hooking a freshwater marlin I reckon!
I've heard of blokes using surface/wake/popper flies - never tried them myself, never had any luck with floating plugs either so that's probably why. Supposed to be spectacular when they take though.
Deadbaits at night is how I've caught most of my pike - beats the crap out of carp fishing :D _________________ Adam
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wouldnt mind seing a few pickies of this lovely river as i havent been near it for months.cant wait to have a go 
hopefully ill b able to put a few pics off my own up on the site who knows might even be a fish on one of them lol 
)a big lead head ***** him in the back of the ear i had to compose myself and go and rip it out