| Locating the fish is an essential skill when fishing. | | | | easier to be in control when fishing at 20 yards than |
| Knowing where they are hiding will let you put your | | | | at 150. |
| baits in the right place. With pike it can be a good | | | | Using ground bait to attract pike to you has the |
| idea to lure the fish closer in by pre-baiting. | | | | added benefit of stimulating otherwise sleepy fish |
| Many pike anglers like distance techniques for pike. | | | | during the cold season. If you introduce a ball of fish |
| They will use extra strong gear not unlike heavy sea | | | | mash into a potential swim the pike will be attracted |
| fishing beach rods that can cast big weights up to | | | | by the smell. Pungent fish oils can be mixed into the |
| two hundred yards. Radio control floating craft are | | | | ground bait to increase their allure. The mixture can |
| even used to take the ground bait to a distant hot | | | | be made up in the comfort of your kitchen and |
| spot and dump it there! | | | | frozen in soluble PVA bags. These will dissolve in |
| There is no doubt that this method will catch fish, | | | | water. This means that when you are ready to go |
| but it does have the disadvantage of reducing your | | | | fishing it is a simple and clean process of taking a |
| contact with the fish and your ability to feel or notice | | | | few frozen ground baits with you. While still frozen |
| a take. Deep hooking a pike down its throat is most | | | | they can be thrown into the swim and will slowly |
| likely to happen when control over the end rig is | | | | melt releasing the smelly oils. |
| least, as with long distance fishing. Deep throat | | | | Near fishing for pike means that you can strike |
| hooked fish can starve to death, as the hooks and | | | | immediately you feel the bait has been turned in the |
| wire trace cannot be removed without damaging the | | | | pike's mouth, but before it swallows it. This prevents |
| delicate throat and stomach. | | | | deep hooking. As you will have been using much |
| Striking a pike's bite at just the right time is the way | | | | lighter tackle you will likely have had a more |
| to prevent deep hooking down the throat. It is much | | | | enjoyable tussle with the pike. |