long range piking ????

[smudger172]

After watching the monster carp program and the long range they were fishing at, 500 yards plus it got me thinking how safe is it. I am confident piking with a vane at 200 yards and have done many times with good results but fishing a bait on the bottom at that distance does not sit well with me.

has anybody fished for pike at that distance...

 

[thecrow]

I watched that episode and thought they were fishing in a catch at all costs way, 500yds is a ridiculous distance to be fishing for anything as was their jumping into a boat to get out to net the fish leaving all other rods in the care? of one other angler.

To fish at long range for pike unless drifting would for me involve no more than around 80 yards and even then the line at the rod end would have to receive a lot of attention from the angler.

 

[rich66]

Stupid question but how on earth would you get the bait out there ?

 

[sam vimes]

Stupid question but how on earth would you get the bait out there ?

Usually they row out such distances in a dinghy.

 

[rich66]

Usually they row out such distances in a dinghy.

Cheers thought it might be something like that, seems pretty daft to me but we are all different.

 

[terry m]

Pike fishing at 500 yards seems somewhat irresponsible. Even with braid, good reliable bite indication at that range would be very difficult to achieve consistently in all but the stillest of days.

Why not just get in a boat?

 

[Steve Appleford]

Dragging in Pike from that distance esp big girls aint gonna help there lifespan imo,vunerable enough to miss handling on bank without that in the first place

 

[reeltime]

Not acceptable to me , even if not deeply hooked pike are fragile fish