Missed Runs

[steve2]

Some clubs do have some strange rules when it comes to pike fishing often wonder who makes them up and why. It's like fishing with one hand tied behind your back.
Worst one to me as far as pike welfare is concerned is the pike season covering their spawning season and not when they are at their fittest the summer.

 

[Philip]

Another way I have fished when the pike are fry feeding was to utilise the carp anglers beachcaster rig with a live or dead dangling just under the surface but your water needs to be shallow enough to use this method.

First time I have heard of someone using beachcaster setup for Piking.... Can imagine the takes must have been interesting !

I think it was Colin Dyson who wrote a really good article on fry feeding Pike in the Specialist Angling World magazine that only lasted 3 or 4 editions some years back. He witnessed some really good Pike fry feeding but what surprised him was how gently they could feed. It was not just explosive attacks into the mass of fry. The Pike would just slip up and down mouth wide open a bit like a whale feeding Krill and scoop them up.

He said his estimation of them as a predator went up several nothches when he saw it.

 

[thecrow]

First time I have heard of someone using beachcaster setup for Piking.... Can imagine the takes must have been interesting

They were but not all takes resulted in a fish being hooked, the varied from a big swirl and the baitrunner giving line to what I always thought was a more confident take where the rig would be pulled sideways across the surface, it was a method where the bait runner was set as light as the rig allowed and with small baits being used an immediate strike was required, its an idea I got from reading about a catfish angler doing the same thing with large bunches of worms.

 

[Philip]

Yes its one of those cross over ideas from the various branches of the sport..always worth a try.

I also read about Cat anglers using the beachcaster ..as you say with worms, also leeches just under the surface. The cats come right up especially at night and can feed right in the surface layers.

I guess like the Rudd its nnother example of a fish not doing what people might expect..Cats look all the world like a bottom feeding scavenger, which of course they are but a very capable predator at any level in the water too.