When you got no ice....

[bigugli]

Late fall bank fishing has always been fairly steady down here in Niagara. I've fished shoreline til February in some warm years. Always manage some perch and pike.

I've had one really big pike grab my perch a couple of times now. These are 9-10 perch he's grabbing, and this pike looks to easily be 4x as large. Even got it up to the dock, once, before he spit the perch.

Sure messed up the perch.

Close up

These shore spots will dry up soon enough once the perch move out onto the flats beyond casting distance.

[uglyfish]

might be a good idea to toss on a live target perch and see if u can get that pike!

[Leecher]

Right on Bruce Sounds like some great excitement even though the lack of ice

Thanks for sharing

Jacques

[BillM]

Put that perch on a livebait rig!

[Rizzo]

could it be a musky instead of pike?

[mike rousseau]

could it be a musky instead of pike?

 

 

I was thinking the same thing...

 

Musky slice like that... Pike bite marks aren't usually that clean...

 

And there are some serious musky in the niagra...

[bigugli]

I was thinking the same thing...

 

Musky slice like that... Pike bite marks aren't usually that clean...

 

And there are some serious musky in the niagra...

Had the typical spots of a pike white on dark green. There are some big pike, as well as muskie, in the region's waterways, and this was not the Niagara R.

 

I've had a few, clean deep, pike slices from big pike in my time. 6 stitches the one time. Another time we were back in the bush so we duct taped them shut. By the time I was back to a doctor they had sealed up nicely

Edited January 2, 2012 by bigugli