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Pike is a coveted trophy not only for the avid spinning angler, but also for the winter fisherman. From the ice and until the spring you can catch pike both on artificial lures, such as balancers and blades, and on live bait – fishing poles.

Some people may find the fishing on the fishing poles a bit boring – set up your gear and wait for the long-awaited flag to fly. In fact, everything is far from that. Firstly, before you start setting up the fishing poles, you should get a livebait.

Of course, most fishing stores have on sale small crucian carp or minnow, which can successfully act as bait for pike. However, not once noticed that the toothy much more readily responds to “home cooking” in the form of perch or roach, caught on the same reservoir where it is planned to catch pike on the rears. And it is good when this same roach or perch immediately responds, barely the bait reaches the water column. But there are situations where the extraction of a livebait becomes almost fundamental to successful fishing. It begins frantic drilling of new holes and the search for active fish young.

How to set up fishing poles?

Here, finally, the can is filled with live fish, you can move on to the placement of gear. It turns out that in this case everything is not so simple. And, sticking the gear in the wrong place and in the wrong way, you can hardly count on a good catch. The fact is that the pike, like many other predators, prefer to stay in hiding. Therefore, careful study of the relief in the proposed place of catch will be clearly not superfluous.

It is good if you happened to catch in these areas in open water. This, as a rule, allows you to better navigate the terrain and determine where the snag lies, where the pit and other bottom anomalies. If there is no such experience, then find an interesting area can be with the help of echo sounder and carefully inspecting the area. A wall of reeds or reeds, shallow bay – such a place may well be promising. Felt a snag on the bottom or a hole – perhaps somewhere nearby lurked predator.

At the very beginning of winter and early spring pike is quite active and moves a lot. In this case, it is necessary to set up fishing poles at a distance of 15 to 25 meters from each other. This allows you to cover a large water area. Closer to the middle of winter, the predator is not so active, so the distance should be reduced to 5 – 10 meters. In addition, in the absence of nibbles is often an effective tactic is the rearrangement of zhyrlitsa. In the case if the bite does not follow for an hour. Expose zhyrlitsy so that the vein quietly walked in the water column, but could not hide in the aquatic vegetation or burrow in the muddy bottom. His task – to provoke an attack, so the bait should always be in sight of the predator.

What is a winter fishing rod?

In the usual view of the zhelitsa – a piece of fairly strong fishing line, equipped with a small sliding weight, a leash to resist the sharp pike teeth and with a hook at its end. On the hook, whether it is a double, treble or single, is baited with a small fish. Our grandfathers successfully managed with just such a minimal set, tying only the second end of the fishing line to a twig and leaving it over the hole.

The design of modern fishing poles is more “sporty” due to the fact that in the case of a nibble, the fishing line comes off the spool of the reel or reel. Having grasped the bait, the pike makes a jerk, winding up several meters of fishing line. It is very important that none of the elements of the design did not prevent its free descent. Otherwise, smelling something wrong, the predator can throw the bait. The reel should rotate freely, without seizures, but do not allow the occurrence of runs due to inertia in the case of a sharp jerk. After the attack, the sliding weight falls to the bottom and freely passes the fishing line, thereby causing no suspicion of the predator. The fisherman is left to decide whether to hook immediately, having seen the flag, or wait a minute or two and let the pike better swallow the bait.

Most often the design of modern fishing poles is a plastic base with a slit for fishing line and a stand with a spool. The base protects the hole from daylight and freezing, and the spool promotes the free flow of fishing line at the bite. Another important detail of any fishing rod is a nibble signaler. Most often it is a metal spring with a piece of brightly colored fabric, which is wound under the spool of the reel.
In the case of a nibble, barely the spool begins to rotate, the spring is released and straightens, signaling the angler about the long-awaited nibble. There is another design, where as a flag is a reel with wound fishing line, painted in a bright color. In case of a nibble, the reel turns over, giving the fish the fishing line, and the fisherman giving the command to act.

Often on the reservoir can be met with zhurlitsy, where as a base is a tripod or an ordinary piece of tubing. Both this and the other design although quite working, but has a number of disadvantages: from the lack of protection of the hole from snow, light and freezing in the first case, and the need to solve the problem of fixing the gear on the ice in the second. This problem can be especially acute in the absence of snow, which could be lightly powdered in the hole, as well as used to fix the tackle. Therefore, the most advantageous option is the use of fishing poles on a plastic base. With a reel or reel – it is already a matter of taste. Both these and others are on sale both piece by piece, and a set in a convenient bag.

For catching pike on the reefers usually use a strong monofilament fishing line with a cross section of not less than 0.3 mm. The length of the fishing line should be determined based on the depth of the fishing ground, with an adjustment for the fact that the pike, as a rule, does not immediately swallow its prey, and after the attack hurries with it into hiding for further brutal reprisal.

A big role in catching fish plays a leash, the purpose of which is to resist the sharp pike teeth. In the case of reapers to use “any” leash will not work. Many people’s favorite string is hardly suitable, as the behavior of the animal in this case will look unnatural. The use of fluorocarbon leashes is also not a panacea from the sharp teeth of the predator, and increasing the diameter of the section only coarsens the tackle. Much better for this role are suitable for multi-strand leashes and leashes made of titanium with a length of at least 20 centimeters. Due to their lightness and flexibility, they practically do not constrict the movements of the fish bait on the hook. To the choice of the right hook different fishermen treat differently. Some use only trebles, others put a double. Others use both, and sometimes even resort to the use of single hooks.
Of course, in “strong” places, where there is a high probability of snagging, it makes sense to abandon the extra sting of the hook to avoid trouble in the form of breaking the tackle. But the realization in this case may change to a greater or lesser extent. And sometimes not for the better.

The main rule, which should be guided – the hook should always correspond to the bait and the intended prey. In the case of pike shallow is clearly not worth it. There are on sale and special livebait hooks, which have one underdeck, for a livebait, is smaller than the other. Such doubles and triplets are much less traumatizing to the critter, and he longer does not fall asleep, remaining attractive to the predator.

And lastly about how to bait the fish on the hook. Most often, the livebait is pierced with a hook in the area of the dorsal fin. Practice shows that the fish in this form looks quite natural, tempting the pike to attack. And sticking out of his back sharp stingers practically do not embarrass the toothy when eating the bait. Another fairly well-known method is that the leash is wound up under the gill cover and lead through the mouth of the livebait. After that, at the end of the leash attach a hook and start fishing. The gillnet is a tackle very exciting and extractive. However, do not forget about respect for other colleagues in the hobby, as well as respect for nature. Limit yourself in the amount of tackle used, the number and size of fish caught and do not leave garbage on the ice.

Autor: Bob Nudd é um pescador experiente com mais de 20 anos de experiência e vencedor de muitas competições.