| Fishing for walleye, lake trout or northern pike in early | | | | tackle allows for an accurate cast and a slow |
| June has provided some challenges at our remote | | | | retrieve. With the bubble float in place, your fly can |
| fly-in fishing lodge in northern Manitoba, Canada. At | | | | be stopped and twitched to entice a strike. When |
| ice-out, in early June, the pike congregate in shallow | | | | nothing else works, and fly fishing isn't an option, you |
| bays where the water first begins to warm up. You | | | | can lure these lethargic predators into action and |
| can see the Trophy Pike, but they won't hit anything | | | | enjoy the results! |
| you throw at them. | | | | With the increase in the popularity of fly fishing in |
| The most effective way to catch these neutral to | | | | recent years, we're getting more and more clients at |
| negative fish is usually by fly fishing. If you're not a | | | | the lodge that want to use their fly fishing tackle. |
| fly fisherman, then what do you do? You can still | | | | Watching an experienced fly fisherman entice these |
| cash in by using spinning tackle with a fly, such as a | | | | pike into attacking their lure is a thing of beauty. I'm |
| Dahlberg Diver or a Bunny Leach. To get a little | | | | working on improving my fly fishing skills; but until I |
| weight for throwing, I add a clear bubble float with | | | | become more of an expert, using some basic flys |
| water in it to get the fly where you need it. You can | | | | with the spinning tackle I'm familiar with has given me |
| sight cast into the shallows to pick out which | | | | a whole new way to fish for some early trophy pike! |
| northern pike will be your next target. The spinning | | | | |