Pike

Among the freshwater fish pike is one of the most voracious predators. Attacks on fish even larger than his own. It is found in most of the natural water bodies of the Northern hemisphere.

The body is elongated, slightly compressed from the sides - the pike are not confused with any other fish. Head of wedge-shaped, the jaws of a huge, almost to the Gill covers, and all lined with sharp teeth. River pike differs from lake more elongated body. Painting of the spotted and striped, the back is dark, the belly is bright; color changes depending on habitat. So, pike, who lives in the pits, under the snags, always darker than the one that hunts near sandy beaches.

Pike - single fish, stays near the aquatic vegetation and prefers rivers with decreased flow, bays, channels, shallow lake. Quickly growing. Already by the end of the third year of life has a length of about 40 cm and weight up to 1 kg. In in large rivers and large lakes are not rare cases of catching fishermen meter pike weighing more than 16 kg.

The best period of the bite. The first Jordania begins after the break-up of ice on the pond, the second - in a week since the end of the spawning season. At this time, fills the stomach to the refusal, and then for several days without food choices. The third Jordania comes in the autumn - in September - October, when the pike accumulate fat before hibernation.

Favorite bait. Zywiec (roach, gudgeon, Karasik), small pike peck on the worm. In the spring and summer willingly takes a cancer, in the ponds and overgrown lakes - frog. Among the artificial lures preference should be give to the ropes with a dead fish, sometimes well caught and trolling.

Means of Amateur fishing. Rod to the bait, circles, spinning, track.

The bite. Actively takes the bait all the hours of daylight. Better just enough sacrifice on the sunset. By noon nibble weakens, and in the evening again amplified. In the excitement of the pond and feed during the day. In the summer of fishing improves on cloudy days, when small cold weather, when the heat decreases. In the autumn willing to take the bait from the middle of the day, when he begins to feed on other fish.

Habitats. Is held mostly in submerged weeds, the snags, the whirlpools, under the bushes, loves the quiet water. When fishing with fertilizing on the river is suitable to hunt, fish, attracted by the lees and food. In the summer time, hiding in a greatly overgrown places of the pond, where the cooler and easier to perform their swift from the ambush on the victim. There is, of course, to get it more difficult. Bail can only circles, which is along the thicket.