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Babe Winkelman fishing pike with the banjo minnow


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I am watching WFN and Babe Winkelman fishing pike up in the NWT with a banjo minnow and it was actually producing. Think I might dust off my set I picked up at a flea market down in Florida for $5 about 8 years ago and use them this season. Anybody ever use the banjo minnow?

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Was that the episode where Babe was fishing with Spence Petros ??

 

If so, the underwater footage of the big pike hitting the baits was unbelievable !! Really gives an excellent perspective of how the pike attacks another fish.

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Was that the episode where Babe was fishing with Spence Petros ??

 

If so, the underwater footage of the big pike hitting the baits was unbelievable !! Really gives an excellent perspective of how the pike attacks another fish.

 

Yeah, the underwater footage was insane. I've fished pike in the NWT and it's exactly like that, one after the other of massive pike.

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I just watched that show today as well, nice big pike and underwater footage for sure. The banjo was working just fine but I have a feeling anything would have worked in that bay full of huge hungry aggressive pike, I'd take a live sucker/smelt or the big gulp baits any day over a banjo though, but spot fishing like that with fish everywhere in perfect sight makes things a lot easier too, a simple quarter ounce jig and 3" plastic grub probably would have done the same job in that situation, so it made the banjo out to be a super bait but in reality anything would have worked.

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