Spinners, lures and things
Spinners
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Basic spinners can range between 1/2" long to nearly 3" long and will catch any size of pike, especially when they are fry bashing. |
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A slight variation, looking more life like. |
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Another variation, which is supposed to imitate a fish chasing a fish. |
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A bucktail spinner, a much bigger spiner that tends to fish deeper. |
Spoons
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A small fry imitating spoon, which again can prove very effective on fry feeding pike. |
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A bigger version at about 4" long, but don't be surprised if you catch a pike half its length. |
Lures
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These are sometimes known as crankbaits. These can be float or sink and then the size of the vain at the front governs how deep it dives and the shape of the body gives it a tight or loose action. This is a shallow diving lure. |
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This lure has a large vain, which causes this lure to dive deeper than the above lure. |
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This is a traditional minnow style of lure, which is a shallow diver |
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This is a jointed lure which is also shallow diving. |
Jerk baits
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This body shape comes in floating and sinking varieties and have no built in action. All the action is put into this lure by the angler, by giving short twitches to the rod tip as it is retrieved. |
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This type of Jerk bait is sometimes known as a flipper and naturally sinks. Again all the action of this lure is generated by the angler as he or she twitches the rod as the bait is retrieved. |
Spinnerbaits
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These can range from 1/2 oz to 4 oz, these can be a very underrated. They can be very effective in coloured water as the blades cause a lot of noise to attract the pike. They can be allowed to sink right to the bottom and then retrieved just off the bottom. The single hooks fish upside down, vastly reducing the chances of getting stuck. |
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