The Pike

Years ago

Years ago I fished every fall on the pike. Usually from mid september to december. I caught a lot, it was one of my hobbies. I did not even play football anymore, at least the training. If I had to train during the week, then I prefer to go fish pike. I had at that time fixed my cuttings. I never catch one meter pike though. Usually the largest one was around 85 centimeters.

Where can you find the pike

The pike is very common in the Netherlands and Belgium, you'll find them on the big lakes, small ditches, ponds and rivers. The pike is a predator with a torpedo-like shape and eat everything, such as relatively larger fish, young water birds, amphibians (frogs, salamanders), and crustaceans, pikes are cannibals and they will eat their own kind, if only it fits in his mouth. There are stories known which states that swimmers bitten by pikes. I have also learned that once you have girders and hunters. The hunters are generally thinner than the girders. The girders, lie still and shoot forward as a prey closes in. The pike approached its prey from below and once in his mouth, then the prey is reversed and the first the head goes in. The pike depends on his facial power, he hunts only by sight. If the water is cloudy and there are few shelters than smaller pike will disappear and remain on the bigger pike.

The propagation

The pike spawn in early spring, the eggs are deposited in shallow waters against aquatic plants, preferably flooded pastures. The eggs are totally unprotected and therefore fall prey to other water animals will find the eggs a delicacy. The pike is very loyal to his spawning and he will always return to its spawning grounds. The spawning itself takes several weeks and will be in phases, the females leave the area after spawning the males stay a little longer on the site. Young pike grow very quickly after the first growing season they are already between 10 and 30 centimeters.

Environment

Pike need enough protection to grow safely, as they are cannibals and competitors. Even relatively larger pike about 70 centimeters are been eaten by their larger counterparts. In a healthy marine life, plenty of small pike, hidden between the vegetation. In large ponds and lakes will live very large pike, a length of 1 meter and 30 centimeters is no exception. Some might be even bigger, but they are outliers. In short, clear and richly planted water is a gift for the pike, there are living their prey.

Sport fishing

I usually have fished from a boat using several techniques, which i did used regularly was towing or fishing with plugs and spoons. The drag was as follows: You throw your line out with live prey, of course, then you slowly row and go on until you see the pike have caught the prey. Of then of course you've caught the pike. On the line were usually a number of floats, if the pike caught his prey and you would be able to see where the pike went, you could see on the position of the floats, that the pike have its prey good in his mouth. You could see that as the line would expiry, then you knew definitely that you had hooked the pike. I also spooned often, usually from the waterfront, you throw your line in and then slowly turn your spoon inside. the turning around from the spoon gives the pike the idea that a sick or injured prey passed by him. The pike will not hesitate to attack. Today, many fish with plugs for pike, the techniques are improved in that respect. The very colorful plugs are formidable to see. Unfortunately I have no time anymore for this species to fish it is a beautiful sight if you've beaten pike on the hook.

Thats all for today, cya guys tomorrow, take care everyone.

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