Video: Fly Fishing for Pike Part 2

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2011

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We have a very exciting podcast for you this week. Many of you have asked for a pike podcast, and we've delivered what I think is one of our best presentations in two parts.

Part 1 is an audio interview I conduct with pike expert Drew Price, where he goes into great detail on where, when, and how to catch pike. Also in part 1, we have some tips in the Fly Box section on fishing CDC flies, choosing one rod for bass and trout, and how to get your nymph deep in small plunge pools.

Part 2 is a video where we have tips on pike fishing (along with some shots of nice pike caught on a fly), courtesy of The New Fly Fisher TV show, the best how-to fly fishing show on TV right now (it's on World Fishing Network and some PBS stations).

I know I learned a ton from interviewing Drew and watching the video and can't wait to get at the pike this spring.

Leave us comments on this show at www.orvisnews.com/flyfishing/flyfishingforpike.aspx

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to. Early in the spring when you're fishing post-spond fish you fish a lot of bays that are just outside spawning grounds for northerns and those are your bays that warm up the quickest.
0:28.0	You have early weed growth and the pike really seemed to key in on those areas early in the year.
0:33.2	It's your first places where the small minnows perch and walley will start hanging out and they just,
0:38.0	it's a perfect ambush point for them.
0:40.0	As the summer progresses, the pike will move out into the deeper colder water, but they will move into
0:45.1	the weed beds at certain times during the day. So you really have to pattern them and key in on those
0:49.7	times and it makes for some fantastic fishing as the weeds are coming up.
0:53.0	Later on in the fall, the water starts to cool off,
0:57.0	the weed beds start to die and the pike are in there heavy,
1:00.0	feeding viciously for the winter months, putting on some weight,
1:04.0	and that's some of the best fly fishing of the year.
1:06.6	It's in the fall time.
1:08.2	There's one.
1:09.3	Oh, look at that.
1:10.8	Okay, we go here. Hey, what's very important to remember here, because of pike or cold-blooded creatures,
1:17.0	water temperature greatly depends on this retrieve that you'll use as you're bringing these flies in. Generally speaking
1:25.1	earlier in the morning use a slower retrieve and as a day progresses as the water
1:29.5	warms up you can go to a more aggressive retrieve.
1:34.0	And you just have to play around a little bit throughout the day
1:37.0	just to see what seems to turn the fish on. Oh, I see a fly still working.
1:48.0	I see a fly still working.
1:50.0	Yeah, it is.
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