Whats Your best Pike dead bait?

[chesters1]

I use frozen pilchards (sardines) ,the crayfish love them and will hardly touch native fish and surprisingly they avoid mackeral so i presume thepilchard smell goes further ,ifthecrays like them pike will and most certainly do

[Sportsman]

When I pike fished in Scotland my favourite bait was sardine.

If I Pike fished here it still would be.

[JV44]

When I pike fished in Scotland my favourite bait was sardine.

If I Pike fished here it still would be.

 

 

Sardine is my favorite to with half mackerel a close second

[Phone]

All,

 

Dead pike bait makes good possum bait.

 

Phone

[azrael]

All,

 

Dead pike bait makes good possum bait.

 

Phone

 

 

also dead pike is best pike dead bait

[cannibalspinners]

Best bait i have ever used regardless of water

has to be Mackerel

No doubt in my opinion

[Anderoo]

Sardine for me overall. Trout were always pretty reliable on gravel pits for some reason. Eels were absolutely fantastic on some waters and next to useless on others. It's been a while since I've done much deadbaiting though!

[JV44]

I had intended to buy a bulk order and target a bit of the Thames that has a history of big fish but little attention and i had in mind to try lamprey/blueys/smelt as a change to my normal sardine attack,with the state of the river lately glad i held off .

 

Last couple of winters Pike have not figured on my radar as much as they used to but realy want a big girl from the river this winter so i am going to throw a sleeper rod out whilst Chubbing/Roach hunting if the poxy river ever settles down Steve.

[grayson]

On recent seasons' experience I would say lamprey outfishes everything; mackerel good, herring less so. Grayling is outstanding- used to use it years ago to great effect(on a bit of river which was paved with them by the way ). Also like smelt- but have never found sprats to be much good at all . The one problem with lamprey is that bloody chub love them too - even good size whole ones.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Funny how many folk say sardine. I've hardly ever had a sniff on the blinkin' things but then again, maybe my expectations are higher...I don't know.

 

In no particular order it has to be...

 

Small Brownies (4-6") laced with Kalium Aniseed oil.

Half lamprey section (preferably the head but the difference is neglible really)

5-6" Smelt laced with Smelt oil.

 

I lied....that's exactly the order. Try anything less at your peril.