Topic says it all really.

My favorite thing for Pike is a Spoon!!!!

inline spinners Meps with a number 5 blade . I also like to speed troll rattle traps .

i have had some luck on larger yellow spinnerbaits.

I like anything shinny, spoons are good, but I used to throw this 4 inch chartuese grub that had 2 tails with a small spinnerbait and would catch pike all the time on it, guess it was the flash of the spinner that they liked

My favorite is a black large buzzbait or a number 5 mepps black with red spots.

ive cought all my pike/muskies with lil cloe spoons

The one time I got to go for pike was on a fishing trip about ten years ago in the boundary in Minnesota and the only thing I had any luck on was a brown rapala I found in a tree limb the first afternoon

#5 Mepps or Blue Fox bucktail (Black w/Red)

Posted By jgreene49 on 26 May 2011 06:58 PM
The one time I got to go for pike was on a fishing trip about ten years ago in the boundary in Minnesota and the only thing I had any luck on was a brown rapala I found in a tree limb the first afternoon

What size was it?

Rat-L-Trap's also work well on em!!!!

Inline Spinners and Spoons have given me most of my pikes. However I'm still trying to catch them with cranks and topwater plugs.

Depends on the conditions and situations. Along the weed edge and break I like a 6" to 8" perch 3' to 4' under a float. Along a deep drop off I like a Rapala deeptail dancer or DT 16. Casting into or nearthe weeds I like Rapala jointeds, huskyjerks, spoons (5 of diamonds) mepps aglia dressed, mepps comet minnow, popper of some sort. Well you starting to get the idea what ever seems to work at that time. I am partial to lure's with rattles in them.

Maybe we ought to try something differant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_E4...e=youtu.be

husky jerks work great also

Orange and silver spoon, Silver/w Blue back Rat-L-Trap.

I would have to say that my favorite lure to throw for pike is a slow sink swimbait that I wake just under the surface there's nothing like it when u actually see the pike follow and strike sometimes their fins will be exposed while they follow it is a sight to see,

I like dynamic lures dynamo in perch or slimer.

Red & white Dare Devils, or a crawdad colored Storm Wiggle Wart.

5 of Diamonds Spoon works well here!!

yep psg works well here too.

I have always been partial to dynamite. I did have a problem with the DNR, but I simply lit a stick and handed it to the officer and asked him if he wanted to talk or fish.

Good one Pegsguy! 

When im guiding my go to is a williams whitefish, the biggest one you can get. 7 inch hollow belly swimbaits or a black and blue jig and pork usually produce pretty good for me too.

Also Partial to the older/bigger Lazy Ike's

I like to use down deep Husky Jerks, DT16, Deep tail dancers, spoons and jigs. But I will say that Rod Tosser does very well with chartruse spinnerbaits!

Just fell in love with my Mepps. the #4 dressed worked great.couldn't find a #5 dressed. caught my record pike on the #4 my first ever Walleye and even a 14.5 lpd flathead. 1/4 oz chrome castmasters! Lazy ike. Mepps syclops. My dad likes the little crappie spinners for some reason but they work for him.

My best performing bait has been a 1/16 oz, chartruse colored jig with a 2" twin-tailed twisty! I just hammered them at Champlain and the Gwinn meet!

wow that is really weird you said that, I used to throw that exact combination too for pike and would catch at least 1 every morning. it was chartrues double twister tail grub and I added a spinner to it and they seemed to love it, casted it right along the weed beds.

Yep! Nothing I've used since has worked as good (I used a white one).   But I am having success with deep down husky jerk and the spoonbill minnow also!

Well Pete maybe we should try it again. You never no we might stumble on to something.

No stumble about it! Between you, me and Sue we can do some damage where the pike are concerned! I have some custom colors for DT16s including all white...I plan to be at the finger lakes meet for the entire week this year. I also plan to hook-up with Erabbit a few times this spring and summer! I sure hope we can get together this year...Tom said the same thing...getting together!

I sure hope that things are better than last year. This area still hasn't recovered from Hurricane Irene. It will be years before things are back to normal. I sure hope to make the meets this year. I look forward to fishing and seeing you, Ed, and Tom.

For those of you that are wondering if we just happen to be neighbors or something, this is an example of what happens when members get together at member meets. Erabbit (Ed) is from NE Pa, I am from SE Pa, Wellsley (Frank) is from upstate NY and canepole (Tom) is from Wisconsin. We try to get together as often as our family budgets & plans will allow!  And this is happening in several areas of the country. So do yourselves a favor and try to attend a member meet somewhere near you!

Here is a link that you might enjoy...You may even recognize some of the names if you have been on this site long enough!

http://www.photodex.com/share/fishe...m/x2akkgg4

Actually Pete's favorite is a 1/2 stick of dynamite tied to a rock LOL

sssssh...don't tell everyone!

how do you get an NAFC patch are you a lifetime member or something?

Yes, I am a life member. The patch that was on my hat was ordered a few years ago....The year of that particular meet, it was a special order.

Posted By retired-psg on 06 Feb 2012 10:54 AM
Actually Pete's favorite is a 1/2 stick of dynamite tied to a rock LOL

You've gone fishing with Pete too huh. LOL

cool