Pike fishing on wobblers

Beginner spinners often ask questions related to catching this beautiful and strong fish. There is an opinion that it is not so difficult to catch it. Maybe somewhere else, but not with us - in heavily "pressed", especially in close to the city, reservoirs. Hang some bait and spend it somehow - this may not "ride". Catch a small "string", still little that understands, perhaps, will succeed. But the "toothy" from a kilogram and above have their own character, and they need to pick up a key and, most importantly, on each water body.

Color preferences of baits

What colors do wobblers have most catchy - natural or acidic, striped or spotted, natural or fancy? There is, of course, no definite answer. Some people like "acid", and he catches them. I prefer "naturalki" and I also do not complain. Here everything happens, so to speak, on a subconscious level. I caught it well, it worked some kind of coloring - and you already have it in the favorites. The main thing is that I do not like wobblers with a very shiny coloring (like Christmas toys). I have "acid", but more calm tones or in a mixture with anything. There are "shiny", but very little. Preferences vary from season to season.

For clarity, I will give an example. I had Jackall Squad Minnow brilliantly-gold color, in one season he was on the river. Usmanke pike mowed very famously. I even wanted to buy the same one, but this one was sent as a rarity, because the bitten was disgusting - there was not a single eye left, the color of the native is also very small. But this color is not found. In confirmation, I will say that in the same year and in the same place, Rigge 90 worked amazingly similar colors. His fate is the same - there was no place left, even had to repaint. And next year a completely different picture: the bait somehow did not show itself. After all, he took the wobblers for the final fishing, and he died heroically on a dead hook, as, in fact, any bait that had worked its way "with a bang."

The conclusion is this: although there are priorities, but you still have to try different colors. If the wobbler of a certain coloring has worked since the beginning of the season, then you can be sure that this or a similar color tone will work until the close of the season. In any case, on a separate pond. First, it is necessary to believe in bait - this time. And the second, the main thing - the game and the type of wobblers, and the coloring is a secondary category.

Brand wobblers and their copies

Never buy frankly cheap baits. Is there a pike in this place or not, is it eating at this moment or not? I do not want to decide yet whether the wobbler works or not?

Cheap up to what price? Difficult question. Well, so let's say - do not go below Yo-zuri, Pontoon 21. You can lower, but here are a few models. Tsuribito, for example, has interesting specimens (the same Jerk Pop 90 and 105. I advise!). Wobblers from Kosadaka, can, and are good at the price, and catch them, but this is all a fake. Its nothing - all copies. Why are they needed if there are originals that are better ?! Who has a good original, he will not buy a copy to him, he will buy the second one the same. Kosadaka is taken by those who want to have a good bait, but do not allow finance.
From catching a "branded" wobblack you get even some moral satisfaction. In a cheap segment, too, there is much to buy. Well, for example, on the shallow water of Haddon middle depth Rapala Huski Jerk, deep-sea Smithsvick. Bomber necessarily need to have (with a small shovel) - it works like a wand-zashchalochka with no glue. Checked many times. The only disease is the overtraining of the front tee by the leash, but it is treated (hard leash, less aggressive wiring or a change of tee to "odinarnik" of the appropriate size).

I want to note Pontoon 21. The office is decent and developing quite fast. Novelties sypyatsya as from the cornucopia. The price is lower, but a lot of interesting and good. I'd rather buy one wobbler for six hundred rubles than two for three hundred. In general, one should strive for the best - what is in the "sticks", what is in the reels, what is in the consumables, what is in the baits. And good is expensive. Almost there is no expensive nonsense and, accordingly, a good tuff. I do not have a problem selling something extra, although there are a lot of wobblers. Some ponabirut cheap rattles, and throw out a pity, so they sell. Good lures do not have to be bought in batches - it's expensive. Better quietly - one or two a month, and eventually a decent assortment for all occasions will gather. Duplicate optional - take only checked, and better in two colors, for example "sour" and "naturalka". There are exceptions. For example, I purchased eight Pointer lures 128 most, in my opinion, killer colors. Lures of all colors will not get, and it's too much. Losses are inevitable, but not so frequent. In the unknown places you catch rarely. And if you do not know, it's not necessary to put an expensive lure immediately, you can feel the water area with three or five casts in that it's not a pity - by "shaking", "rubber". Well, of course, there should be good accessories, leash, "braid". A trailer is desirable, especially when fishing from a boat.

If you do not bite on the brand wobblack, then at this time in this place it is not in demand for its TTX, it will work the next time, although it is possible to dodge - to try different wiring. But satisfaction is still present. The lack of result is also a result: I know, or there is no pike, or she does not eat anything. Be sure to offer her something radically different in form, size or depth.
I was somehow asked to name the five most deadly wobblers from the whole arsenal. In my opinion, this is unrealistic. You can try to name five out of fifteen, and then not fact. Each bait has its time and place. But still I will name those who recently visited the mouth of the pike on different water bodies, small rivers and ponds: Zip Baits: Rigge 90, Orbit 80 and 110; Jackall: Squad Minnow 95, Smash Minnow 110, Squirrel DD; Smich: Jib 90 and 110; Ecogear: 105 and 72 (F), 70 and 90 (S); Owner C'ultiva: 112 ° F; Lucki Craft: 100 and 128; Izumi.

I will not delve deeper into rudry, jacksons, norices, bolosongs, killers ... These baits are widely heard, and the reviews are good. Yes, they are expensive, but they are made soundly and, most importantly, they catch it.

A bit about everything

Box. How to take on fishing such a quantity of baits? And do it and do not! I'm taking a small box with me. I try to put there three pieces of "metrovik" (bigger and smaller), a couple of superficial ones, three "one and a half" (bigger and smaller), three "abyss" (on the same principle). A couple of "bubbles". Several sinking, different physique. Just in case, a little "rubber" and iron. I always take something from what is not yet uncovered.

Range. If the wobbler badly flies, it does not mean that it is bad. It was created not to fly, but to behave correctly in the water. Fixed all at a distance. Ensuring a normal game at a distance of more than 30-40 m is not very handy, and it is superfluous. Wobblers are a melee bait. I specifically refer to the pike and its attendant environment (reeds, snags, coastal swamps, bushes, "windows" in the grass, thickets, etc.). For example, reeds hardly ever grow in a straight line. Better precise casting at 20-25 m and wiring very tightly to the reeds, than casting into the marathon distances and wiring almost in the middle of the river.

"Stick" under the tweak. The structure is not oak, but that there was no failure even on aggressive animation. For example: the mass Pointer 100 - 18 g, but twitch it with a "stick" test to 21 g I would not. I need an "unzovik". In general, everything is for an amateur. I prefer evil "sticks", because I like hard animation. "Chuika" is welcome, but not as much as in a jig (there it is all!). However, and feel the change in the game wobbler from a dangling blade of grass and quickly exhaust, rather than doing idling - also good. The pike's punch is enough to miss, but still a sensitive tackle is good. She can also drive the rubber band.

The ease of "stick" and coil - some pluses. And then nadergalsya, and hands fall off to the end of fishing. The number of sets depends on the number of baits (range of their masses and porosity). Small wobblers (70, 80, 90) - "stick" to 17-21. "Sotki" (105, 110, 120) - the "Untsovy" refrigerator. If there is a larger "drill", then the third is not an obstacle. If one pike set, then, respectively, the average range (that is, up to 28 g). Like that.

A few questions about the tactics of catching
If some wobbler has worked - and silence, do I have to start busting again or is it worth changing seats? After all, if you rinse the entire set of wobblers for a few casts each, then it can take a lot of time for one place, and it's "dead" ...

If the wobbler has worked and there are no further bites, of course, it is better to move to another place. Active took, and passive to provoke the bite is much more difficult (again, we do not know if it is there at all). Once, on an unfamiliar pond on the echosounder, I found a large fish on the dump, most likely a pike. I tormented her for an hour, and it's all to no avail ... It's better to look for an active fish.

And there was such. There were three pikes in the depth of the echosounder - and all three were hit by a muffin for three casts. It is often not necessary to change lures, especially if some one has worked. Now if after changing several places there is no result, then you start to sort through, try other wobblers, and preferably completely different. Well, it is obligatory to use at each new place the one who has already shown himself! When all the efforts are in vain, you start and "koloblo" put, and the jig to try.

When I get to a new place, I throw the water around in a circle, but not often (casting 5-6). Wiring is done aggressive with the expectation of an active fish. Then a couple of postings in the most promising places, more smooth with long pauses. Then - another one or two, and a change of bait. Then again switch the boat (or transition). At the next place, I first try to catch the one that hangs on the rod. Then the one that worked before. Then I put a new bait and look for a new place. To sort out the lures in one place is a chore and long. And when there are no bites, the desire to stay here for a long time disappears.

If you stood up to do wiring along the reeds, is it worth trying to throw on the channel, where much deeper? After all, the used wobbler does not involve such penetration ...

Naturally, it does not hurt. The fish on the bed can stand in the water, it can also jump out of the depth, and the distance is not a hindrance. Last fall, on a pond, the pike stood on a groove that runs along the entire pond (apparently, the channel of an old stream or stream) at a depth of 5-6 m. And quite well reacted to the aggressive Twinter Pointer 128, although it has a depth of 1.5 m. And that distance is not a hindrance - it's a fact. About two years ago on the river. Usmanka quite carefully fished the lupushki, I do not remember what a wobbler. Bites did not follow. I shifted about fifteen meters to the side, put Orbit 110, and on the first post from those water lilies went a keel wave and the "toothy torpedo" made an attack. It happens…

The usual situation: the pike climbs deep into the coastal reeds. How and how to get her out of there?

If deep, then, unfortunately, almost nothing ... But all the same the fish have to eat, and the most active comes closer to the edge of the reeds, so that someone can skip and hide. For wiring along the reeds "toothy" may not react. The lure jumps past, and the pike does not have time or does not want to grab such prey, but to attack the fish (wobblers) from the rear, from the tail, is likely to want. So I need to try fishing not along, but from the reeds. A floating wobbler and a suspender are not the ones that will help. Even if you put the lure in close contact with the reeds, while it is drowned, it will be far away, and the attack may not follow. To help come sinking wobblers, and not too small. Each time to throw for a trifle a pike "not with a hand". We put the bait to the thickets, letting go in the water and making sharp jerks, but not long, so that the wobbler as long as possible was not far from the edge. Sometimes it works.

But to find a pike (in which place it stands ready) is hard. Far from the reeds do not need to, long wiring is also not needed. The main thing is accuracy. Well, to cast a plot, shifting cast from casting, the less, the better. After the first casting - the next not more than 50 cm from the previous. When the wiring is no longer very similar to "from the reeds," it is better to move about ten meters and continue in the same spirit to systematically check the next sector for the presence of a pike that came closer to the open water to fill the stomach. Not so it is tedious - casting a near and useful wiring is 1-1.5 m. Then exhausting and the next cast. Or throw like a float rod, if you stand in a boat. With this feed, the "toothy" can jump out, being also a meter from the edge of the cane.