Jeremy:
Sounds like “deja vu all over again”! I had exactly the same experience with my son a couple of springs ago, but our score was 6 -2…TIM
(I hate to profile any fishing as competition, but it does help to illustrate the effectiveness of flies for pike c/f hardware and bait.)
Do any of you guys have any experience with using a double line by way of a bimini twist. I know the salties use it for almost everything but I hear no mentions of it for pike. This spring I have been playing with a double line of power pro (I can’t even cut that stuff with my nail clippers) but no luck on finding fish yet.
Who has time for stress when there are fish to catch.
Nick
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For the past 2 years, I’ve used Spiderwire Fusion line as a bite tipped. I have never(NEVER) had a break off, cut off, nothing. Even the smallies in the same lake don’t shy away from it. I use 50lb(20lb diameter) and it takes a knot great, even with a teflon coating. I inadvertantly hooked onto a dislodged swimming raft while trying to interest a pod of lurking smallies, but hooked the raft instead. I pulled it ashore with my deceiver firmly lodged in it’s siderail,without a stretch mark, fray,nothing. I’ll never go back to wire. I’d say what I really think of wire, but I’d rather not get banned as it IS a family oriented site. Maybe this will convince you as to bass not being shy on Spiderwire: Jamie
“Fishing is more than a sport.It is a way of thinking and doing,a way of reviving the mind and body” Roderick Haig-Brown
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Mcmutt,
While being a tad skeptical (born of 50 years of pike fishing I guess) and always using wire (17# in this case) your post says nothing is absolute.
You have piqued my interest and I think I’m going to give this line a try. Common sense tells me not to but…you seem to have good luck. I’m willing to try.
I’m guessing I just might be able to run into someone someplace that will have a used spool with a few yards left on it, so I don’t have to buy 100 yds. Folk are usually standing around the shop so I"ll ask around.
Thanks for riling me up here. Never hurts to look around.
Edit…I can experiment a bit but would you mind sharing your preferred knots for attaching tippet to leader (Allbright??) and fly to tippet? (Non-slip loop??)
Thanks.
Jeremy.
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