What rigging to use

[Orca]

Gonna pier fish after a two day pike derby on the North Shore of Lake Nipissing.

I want to target walleye and perch with live bait beneath a float in around 6' of 50c water with emerging cabbage and coontail weeds.

I'm thinking of finess but there's those darn pike to worry about.

I have a med action 6.5 foot with a 92 Shimano 2000 spinning reel.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks 

Edited May 24 by Orca
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[limeyangler]

5 hours ago, Orca said:

Gonna pier fish after a two day pike derby on the North Shore of Lake Nipissing.

I want to target walleye and perch with live bait beneath a float in around 6' of 50c water with emerging cabbage and coontail weeds.

I'm thinking of finess but there's those darn pike to worry about.

I have a med action 6.5 foot with a 92 Shimano 2000 spinning reel.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks 

I target walleye off my dock in the spring, the pike are plentiful too. I also use a slip bobber with an 1/8 Oz jig and minnow. I find I rarely lose jigs to pike, Flourocarbon leader helps, even though it’s only 10lb test.  Another option is to use a floating jig on the bottom, I’ll use a 3” piece of 30lb Flourocarbon between the floating jig and a swivel, then run a free running sinker behind the swivel on the main line, attach a rod bell and sit back watch the world go by.

[Orca]

3 minutes ago, limeyangler said:

I target walleye off my dock in the spring, the pike are plentiful too. I also use a slip bobber with an 1/8 Oz jig and minnow. I find I rarely lose jigs to pike, Flourocarbon leader helps, even though it’s only 10lb test.  Another option is to use a floating jig on the bottom, I’ll use a 3” piece of 30lb Flourocarbon between the floating jig and a swivel, then run a free running sinker behind the swivel on the main line, attach a rod bell and sit back watch the world go by.

Ohhh, that sounds good!

Off to crappy tire for fluro, to the sinkers, to and a bell!

Thanks for your valuable suggestions!

[AKRISONER]

just run 14lb fluro as a lead, it takes a real big pike typically to blow that up. Fish arent that shy typically. Make sure you re-tie if the pike bangs up your line bad.