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late summer pike


bassturds

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im headed up next week to maine!

 

one of the lakes near my buddies house has a good population of pike!!!

 

i never caught one before and REALY REALLY WANT ONE!!!!!!

 

ill be fishing from shore so ill bring my light surf rod to get out far!

 

any tips?? shallow? deep?? i dont need a monster pike. i just want a pike

 

thanks!!

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You can always try the forage of choice sold in tackle shops on a bobber.  Other than that, I'd toss a "5 of diamonds" 3/4 oz Daredevil, white spinner bait, or fairly large swim baits.  Pike ambush from cover so pretty much anywhere you'll look for largemouth, you'll find pike


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I Fished the Belgrade lakes for 6 straight years chasing pike, caught a couple of 40"s in our group.  First 2 years we threw every lure imaginable until an old timer called us morons and told us to get the biggest shiners we could and put them on slip bobbers.  He conveniently had a small bait shop but he was 100% correct they loved big shiners, I'm talking 7-8" shiners we fished right after ice out on Great Pond. As for now there should be some small/medium pike around the weeds if there on points/drop offs but the big ones generally go deeper.  If you do go bobber and shiner let them swim for a good 8-10 seconds before you set the hook.  Good luck they are a blast to catch


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Check Maine F & G website to see if they have a map you can print out for the lake.

Submerged weed beds and deeper channels are good places to explore but hard to find & see fishing from shore.

 

Good luck'

(*member formerly known as 'Skitterpop')

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