Pike on occasion bite into anything that passes within reach , that's a fact , though we would not use these things purposely to catch them
!
Last year my wife was fishing for carp and tench with chumming baskets rigged onto feeder rods(check gallery "Homemade European Fishing Essentials") , whereas I cast my lures for pike in that same pond !
Whilst reeling in to check bait and chum , she had two chumming baskets bitten off that day by pike
, but my lures they wouldn't take
!
On other occasion we also had them attack our floats on the surface when reeling in to check bait , also caught one or two smaller ones on sweetcorn as bait , meant for carp , bites occured also just when reeling in bait , and being lucky , that the mono leader did not snap .
The same thing once also happened with a nightcrawler , rigged for eel !
Even had them pike pick up a piece of a kind of meatpie (Bavarian "Leberkäse") , that we put on bottom at night as eel bait , those days I never used a steelleader for bigger eel and the pike snapped(It was a bigger pike , I can clearly tell by its behaviour on the line) the mono , happened two times within a week in that lake , but since not anymore !
Maybe I'd rig hooks onto my chumming baskets ?
Greetz , diemai
