Feb 21 2010
Northern pike fishing tips and techniques
These northern pike fishing tips are primarily for fall northern pike fishing. For me fall northern fishing was always better than spring fishing. Doing most of my northern fishing in MN, with their late opening season, generally the big northerns were already in deeper water by the time the season opened. At least in Southern MN.
I’m going to assume you have some knowledge about fishing for northerns but I’ll give a couple of the northern pike techniques I use and some tips on what I look for when fishing northerns in the fall.
As far as northern pike fishing lures goes I liked a large red daredevle, a fluorescent orange and gold daredevle, a magnum floating rapala, musky lures like a suick or a musky spinner. Big lures were good lures and still are under the right circumstances. However I will say that he majority of my big northerns have come on bait and not northern pike lures.
One day my dad heard the northerns were biting on a small, hard to get to, out of the way, little lake that was back in the middle of a cow pasture. The road to the fishing lake was more of a trail and it’s a good thing I had a pickup as my car wouldn’t have made it back in there.
We were the only people there and I picked a spot on a small point where an arm of water that wandered back into the pasture started. It was fall and I figured the northers might be going into the shallows on the arm to bask in the sun and then come back to the deeper water to feed.
We baited up with large smelt and put the Dr. Juice on. My bait had hardly hit the water and I had a bite and caught a 9 pound northern after a bit of a struggle. While I was catching my fish my dad got a bite and was fighting his and then my wife got a bite too. 3 fish on at once and we hadn’t been there for more than 5 minutes.
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