bill herian wrote:My walleye rigs are #15 flourocarbon with a small (I don't know hook numbers, but pretty small) treble or red single hook. The #15 is great for walleye and should hold a good pike if you play her out.
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Would you chotchballs take the blades off your pike rigs? Bugs me when no end when guys do that. For pike I run #50 powerpro (#12 diameter) with a slightly larger treble. The hooks I use for pike are almost always smaller, often much smaller than what I see other guy using, and I hook more of them. I never use steel leaders either. They are tacky and dumb. Nothing eats through #50 Powerpro. Like Jehler said, enough split shot to sink the bait.
My tip ups are spooled with #50 dacron (the stuff the old J-Plug harnesses are made out of) because I'm an idiot. It's just what I grew up using and its easy on my delicate hands. It freezes and swells something awful but I probably wont ever go to anything else.
Around here, fishing for walleye/pike are one in the same. I just started using the blades on my rigs and as i said, I've seen no decrease in pike, but a large increase in walleye. Dumb not to use them IMO. I also use the #50 line on all of my tipups and a button just because thats what I'm used to.
Steel leaders are just insurance as ive seen line break. Been prroven time and time again that pike dont care whether you have steel, red, blue, hot pink, #50, #2 test hanging off your line. I dont use the massive bait a lot of people use either. I've found the medium pike bait works best on the no. 8 trebles i use, rather than those big ass suckers that are like 9" long.
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