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Basic Northern Pike Fishing Tips

  • Northern respond to action and often strike more out of anger or greed rather than hunger. There more action you give your lure the better.
  • Look for Northern in relatively shallow water along rushes or weedbeds (or over weedbeds) and on bars or reefs.
  • In mid-summer, however, they may be found in much deeper water (10' to 25').
  • Northerns do not feed at night (unless there is a very bright moon). Their major feeding periods are mid-morning, noon and early in the evening.
  • Northerns rarely hit a surface lure. Generally speaking they are most apt to see and to be attracted to lures fished about half-way between the bottom and the surface.
  • When Northerns move into the deeper waters during the mid-summer, try bottom fishing. Lures worked over weedbeds (but just under the surface) are often very productive.
  • Large minnows (6" to 9") are excellent bait for big northerns (suckers, chubs and shiners in this order!).
  • Try minnows still fishing with a bobber or troll them hooked through the nose with a large Lindy Rig.
  • Always give a Northern ample tim to take the bait-at least a full minute.
  • Giant Northerns are often found in spring near sucker spawing grounds or in the fall where Crappies are schooling up.
  • Spoons, bucktails, crank baits and large "plugs" are effective when trolled or retrieved rapidly and radically.
  • When trolling, move at least two or three times as fast for walleyes.
  • White jigs with red and white feathers often work well plain or baited. Use at least a 20# leader or the Northerns are apt to bite the lure off.

 

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