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we are here early in the season as that's the best time to Target big Pike in the shallows
[Music] as the ice melts and Open Water appears Pike looked for some of the shallowest water they
can find when locating early season pike look for shallow soft bottom Bays that lose ice and
warm up the quickest back Bays with large flats that have around three feet of water with weeds
would be a prime area to start it's also where a lot of bait migrate to and pipe will follow
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thank you I want to get a bit of a sunny break here and I'm going to take a minute to talk about
fly sizes at this time of year generally when we're pike fishing any other time of the year
we'd reach for something with double hooks big profile lots of color well here at this time of
year they seem to like something a little smaller they're sulking they've just they've just spawned
so they're really they're not in a big mood to eat so I've been using this murdish minnow
it's about four to five inches long it's been working well Colin's been using Clouser minnows
that are in the same size nothing too big uh the like I said the fish are sulking they're laying on
the bottom we're trying to drag it close to them and now they seem to to like it smaller [Music]
thank you
so as you can see we're midst of another flurry of rain we moved
up the river looking for some walleye to grab for lunch or dinner and I swung a fly through
the current and when it came through the edge somebody was waiting for the walleye
oh look at that oh look at that yeah get them built oh yeah nice job
and that
that fish is down the edge the current as I swung it out I felt the weight he smacked that
fly because that's what he's doing to the wall there coming down the river after spawning [Music]
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quickly in between rain showers you can see I'm wet again Bill's in the bowel casting about the
leader and tippet we're using for pike fishing so this is a sink tip I have on right here it's
really simple really simple I like to use 40 to 50 pound stiff mono and we use four to six feet this
is a on the sink tip I like to use a forefoot and then on the floating lines I used to use I
like to use six to eight feet of this very stiff model helps you turn over the fly and then again
Loop to Loop wire leader and we're using a knotable wire leader so I can put on a good
loop knot like that and I'm using real which is a good there's other manufacturers out there where
reels a good one key is this 30 pound I'm able to land 25 pound Pike no problem with this 30 pound
you can go to 40 if you're worried but 20 or 30 pounds is what I find works well and one of the
things I want to mention here is when you're using this bite wire and you don't want to use
Nippers I've seen people trying to cut it you'll destroy the Nippers blades what you need to get
pair of scissors like this because they are made for cutting wire
they're only like five dollars just go like that give it a little cut
very simple and while I've got that fly off the other thing that is really important in
all fishing and even here with these big Pike using the whole cone again another
thing to put in your Zinger and make sure that you get those fish to the net [Music]
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one of the things I find it's really important to bring on a trip like this for Pike there's several
different fly lines the most important one is your floating line and I'm a big proponent of these
Pike and Muskie taper lines they're fantastic they have a really aggressive short head and it helps
us easily cast heavy flies wind resistant flies in the wind and we don't have any wind here but
I'll tell you I can easily just pick up the fly like this go one false cast and then boom shoot
that fly out easily the thing is that we want to bring some other lines in case of fish go deep
we've got some 15 foot sink tips which are really handy tight threes to type fives and that's the
sink rate of the sink tip and of course the other thing we sometimes bring is a full sinking line
which can be necessary in early time of the year in case the fish go deep and they're on
the edges right now we're in a bay that yesterday was producing lots of fish we're not seeing them
and it could be they're laying on the bottom dormant or it could be they've moved out into
deeper water and we need to go out there and start probing that with our flies but the fly
lines give you the versatility to check and check all parts of the water column effectively [Music]
all right Bill I'm going to try and get it into you okay ever given a fight
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