spinning for pike

[badgerboy 3]

hi guys would a spinning rod of 15/40g casting wieght be srrong enoutgh to land pike to 25lb+

[markha 99]

I once landed a 19lb Pike with an orange fibreglass 9ft skinny spinning rod with a cheap Shakespear reel loaded with 15lb mono line, after using a tiny little silver spoon with red spots on it, lets just say it was a good fight, that took no more than 6 minutes, and the Pike was netted and weighed in a sling and transfered back to the lake as quick as I could.

Thankfully it survived, as Pike are pretty sensitive fish when it comes to the stress of a fight and then being handled out of the water.

 

 

More important is the lbs rating of the rod, not its casting weight, when people start talking about casting weights I normally assume that they are talking about sea fishing rods??? As coarse fishing rods are measured in the strenght of the tip section, Like my old carp rods, one was a 2.5lbs test curve and the other was a 3.5lbs test curve. My old Harrison Barbel rod was a bit softer at 1.75 lbs, lovely rod it was.

 

If you were to use a very stiff rod for coarse fishing of lower weighted fish you stand the chance of causing the fish a lot of damage as you would effectively be bullying it, also a higher chance of pulling so hard, with no give, could see the hooks pulled, which is just not cricket when it comes to a beautifull fish like the Pike.

You can bully all the carp in the world and add some more scars to that greedy fishes lips and it will keep on going; do that to a Pike and its going to die.

[badgerboy 3]

it is a shimano spinning rod with a casting weight of 15 to 40 gram desinged for fresh warter not a sea rod i am well aware of how to handle pike as i have been fishing for them with deadbaits and live baits for years just have never tried lure fishing and would like to give it a try the spinning rod just looks so flimsey compared to my 2.75 lb pike rods

[LUMPHAMMER 324]

it is a shimano spinning rod with a casting weight of 15 to 40 gram desinged for fresh warter not a sea rod i am well aware of how to handle pike as i have been fishing for them with deadbaits and live baits for years just have never tried lure fishing and would like to give it a try the spinning rod just looks so flimsey compared to my 2.75 lb pike rods

 

 

I caught a pike around the 10lb mark on a shamino lure rod,bent the fcuker right round cant remember the gram of the rod though but all good fun......................good luck

[markha 99]

I just offered my thoughts, and sorry it came across as sucking eggs and all that, 1st time I have ever visited this section, so just posted an answer, if I had bothered to check your past posts I guess I would have answered differently, sorry for that.

 

 

Just use your 2.75lbs rod mate you wont go wrong, I used to stalk the margins but found that chucking that spinner right out to the middle and then sink draw would eventually pull a big one in, always used to work at Bluebell Lakes. Have fun and sorry for my initial reply.

Mark