Pike Lures

Standing on a gravelly bend with the current shoving against your waders, you quickly learn that lake tactics don’t transfer to moving water. A blade that spins beautifully in a still pond can go dead and lifeless the second it hits river flow, and a lure that’s too light just gets swept past every pocket … Read more

There’s a particular kind of silence on a British lake in January — no birdsong, no rising fish, just mist sitting on flat, cold water — that makes a lot of anglers assume the pike have simply switched off. They haven’t. What is genuinely true is that pike become cold-blooded in the most literal sense: … Read more

There’s a particular kind of silence that falls over a lake margin just before a pike hits your lure — the retrieve slows, the rod tip dips a fraction, and then the water simply erupts. Get the wrong lure in front of the wrong pike on the wrong day, though, and you’ll cast for hours … Read more