Yes it is the bait leegreen. A pike bait is always hooked up from tail first, as not to deep hook the pike, they swallow a bait head first, always....The bait is being cast out pal, how else would you cast it, without lifting it out of the water....
It would be ny on impossible to hook ajack faceing up the line, think about it. It would be tangled within seconds.........
Excerlent, as I thought, just making sure. I was thinking what the feck is he doing putting a pic up of a tiny pike for