Catching Pike on Lobworm

[fruitloopy]

If anyone reads this and is thinking..."You cant catch Pike on Lobworm!" then I would have thought that up until this evening.

 

I have been out fishing since 8am this morning and caught several very small Perch and Roach but mostly bugger all. I was getting some strange bites but not connecting with them.

 

Suddenly at about 6:30pm the float shot under with my lobworm on the hook. I struck and immediately wondered what I had as it didnt fight like a tench, carp or bream. I got it closer and netted my biggest pike so far, a PB at just 4lb (I dont do much pike fishing).

10 minutes later, on Dendras this time, I hooked into another smaller jack pike at 1lb.

 

The light had fadded so I put on a starlight and two dendras, a couple of minutes later the light attached to the float started travelling slowly to my left. I had gone about 3 feet when it sunk under and I struck.

It took a few seconds to realise it had been hooked but once it did it did its best to shake me off. I caught another PB pike of 7lb!

 

I packed up after that, I was hungry and needed beer!

 

Is it normal to catch pike on worms? I'll get some pics on here later.

[Emma two]

I have caught lots of pike on lobworms when fishing for perch. I can't ever remember 3 in one session though. Perhaps you were fishing when the 'magic switch' clicked on and the pike were moved to feed so urgently that the worms were irresistable.

[Dick Dastardly]

Yes it certainly is! One of our members on here recently told me that if he ever had to fish a pike match thats exactly what he would use and he's a dam good lure angler.

[JV44]

Used to fish air injected lobs in the weir pools on the Thames as you just didnt know what you would get but more often than not it would be Pike so much so that we took to fishing them hair rigged on a wire trace to avoid bite offs,We fished them popped up to avoid the big eels but they dont seem to be there any more Steve.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Yup fairly normal. We used to fish for them using scaled down rigs, probably much like zed rigs, with 3-4 lobs on a single 10 treble. The action could be fairly fast and furious. The biggest I caught was a scraper dubble but I see no reason why larger wouldn't take a bunch of lobs quite readily, if presented to them.

[wellyphant]

If anyone reads this and is thinking..."You cant catch Pike on Lobworm!" then I would have thought that up until this evening.

 

 

 

 

Is it normal to catch pike on worms? I'll get some pics on here later.

 

 

 

 

You can even get them on maggots..caught this little fella on great ouse in july

[gozzer]

Catch Pike?? On lobworm?? Me??

 

 

 

John.

[corydoras]

Like Emma, I have often caught pike on worms whilst targeting perch, like yours mine were all small jack pike.

Edited September 28, 2008 by corydoras

[Neil G]

Quite common by the sounds of it, also hear of lots of pike being caught accidently on maggots. TBH it's probably the movement which gets them going, especially when reeling in

[Anderoo]

It's quite common on some waters and very rare on others, not sure why! I caught one little pike while perch fishing with lobs this weekend and narrowly avoided two others which had a swipe as I was reeling in. The first time I fished Wingham we were plagued by pike on lobs - and they were good fish too, averaging 15lb:

 

 

 

Much bigger than when I actually try to catch the damn things