Best dead bait

[steve66 3,470]

I dont fish for pike often but i fancy ago when the rivers open in june

just wonderd whats peoples favorite dead bait and methods

[minzy 16]

I dont fish for pike often but i fancy ago when the rivers open in june

just wonderd whats peoples favorite dead bait and methods

smelt thats a good dead bait hade planty pike on them

[long dogs 580]

smelt lampreys and half mackrel works for me you can get addatives to inject into dead baits to leak back out once in the water good luck

[Karpman 44]

Screw deads if your pike fishing in June mate, not saying they won't work but try lures or live bait.

 

Alternative could be wait until October when your less likely to kill fish, summer pike don't take much to kill and will get a dead right deep fast.

 

Karpman

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

I love questions like this, simply because they are simple to answer.

 

As most anglers are aware Pike feed on fodder fish such as Roach, Perch, and Rudd and so on, so the simplistic approach to dead baiting for pike is to use just fodder fish as bait, simple, I think as anglers to tend to over complicate things for ourselves. No matter how hard a water is fished for pike, such baits will always produce Pike.

 

No matter what time of the year, you cant be a wobbled Roack.

[steve66 3,470]

Thanks for the answers lads , might leave it untill october certainly dont want to be responsible for the death of a fish

[MOUSE TRAP 19]

i was away for pike today most of the baits above were used but got the best result from sardins

[neilnbeanie 10]

Sardines have always been my favourite deadbait, but this time of year if i do go pike fishing the top water lures come out, great fun for a couple of hours after work.

[steveS.Yorks 161]

I would also leave the deads until the back end,plenty of sport to be had on lures in summer if thats your thing,just use gear strong enough to bully them out and rest any pike caught in the margins until its fully recovered and tries to swim away strongly.

 

If youre intending to fish the Idle Steve i can tell you the best dead,Lamprey hands down,fresh spratts [not previously frozen]are pretty good as well,you can catch on most deads but these 2 will out fish anything else on the Idle.

 

The Torn is worth a chuck as well,not many big fish in it but plenty of action on the jacks,suspended spratts do ok,most deadbait will catch a few,trotted spratt is ok,but ive only lure fished it in the last few years,plenty of action but no big fish really,best ive ever done is about 12lb i think.

 

Hope thats some help.

[zac! 0]

had a few pike on spratts

[andyp 9]

Never caught any pike on sea fish dead baits, all my pike were taken on roach, perch, small carp, skimmer bream, but the best dead bait i have ever used and i have caught on it every time i have used it is Rainbow trout.

 

I get them from the tackle shop in Gainsborough, they cast well, have an oil in them that pike adore(look at all the fat pike caught in the resevoirs)

 

They can be freelined,wobbled,suspended,popped up it makes no difference, the best day i had last year off the river Trent at Newark saw me catching and landing 4 fish in less than one hour, smallest one 18lb, largest one 24 lb and managed to lose one at the net which was estimated to be about 26 lb.

[steve66 3,470]

Thanks think ill see about some trout deadbait and see how things go

Steve , ive never fished the torn but heard afew say its a good days sport , might have a day out over summer

[watchman 256]

I love questions like this, simply because they are simple to answer.

 

As most anglers are aware Pike feed on fodder fish such as Roach, Perch, and Rudd and so on, so the simplistic approach to dead baiting for pike is to use just fodder fish as bait, simple, I think as anglers to tend to over complicate things for ourselves. No matter how hard a water is fished for pike, such baits will always produce Pike.

 

No matter what time of the year, you cant be a wobbled Roack.

[andyp 9]

Thanks think ill see about some trout deadbait and see how things go

Steve , ive never fished the torn but heard afew say its a good days sport , might have a day out over summer

 

 

3 of us had a morning on the torn on one of the coldest days last year, we managed to bank 10 small pike > 7lb in weight wobbling dead coarse fish, then went down to the river idle and i fished a static dead bait (trout)in the margin near my feet and trotted a dead roach under a float.

 

The static dead bait won, there was just one small blip on the bite indicator and i thought a piece of weed had hit the line, picked the rod up and felt a small knock on the rod tip and struck straight away, ended up banking a 12 lb pike, very lean fish, no fight at all.

 

Another place to try is the idle stock ponds, on the long thin lake it is pretty deep near the margins, hooked a large fish in there but never managed to land it.

[rob190364 2,594]

My favourite is eel sections if you're talking static deadbates. But I prefer wobbling sprats or sardines under a float.