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Northern pike fishing tips

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The Follow-Up

When reeling in, after a cast for a Northern Pike or Muskellunge, make a figure eight with your lure every time. When the fish is following the lure, it makes the lure look more realistic, like the lure is actually struggling to get away from being eaten by the musky or pike. You can do more then one figure eight in the water with your lure, but do it smooth and quiet so the fish does not get scared away.

Topics: Musky, and, Pike
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Northern Pike will play with your lures

Pike will often hit your lure several times before finally taking it. Be patient and keep working the area, and if they've hit your lure once they will come back to hit it again. Northern pike have a huge appetite and will continue to hit your lure. Some fishermen have even reported catching the same pike over and over.

Topics: pike, northern pike, lures
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Catch the big Northern Pike

Younger and smaller northern pike spend time in shallower water near reeds and lily pads and other cover. They eat bugs, frogs, minnows and other small food. Medium sized northern pike will usually be near the outskirts of these areas feeding on other small fish.

The really big pike eat walleye, chub, whitefish, and even trout, and they will hang out where they can ambush these fish. Places like rocky shoals, islands, and mouths of streams and rivers are great places to catch big northern pike.

Topics: northern pike, pike, big fish