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jig pike fishing is a productive way spinning fishing. It is especially prey in autumn, when almost all peaceful fish stop feeding and leave their permanent habitats, and the predator, on the contrary, begins to actively roam the pond in search of food. This is the “zhora” time, the best time for pike hunting. This late fishing is expected by many anglers. In autumn, you can catch the most trophy specimens of a toothy predator on spinning.
Choosing tackle
Autumn jig pike fishing does not provide for special strict requirements for gear. jig tooling requires the use of a classic jig spinning with a test of 15-40 grams, which has decent rigidity and power, while being light and sensitive. Build fast. It is determined by the need for powerful hooks when fishing at a distance from the coast. When shore fishing, the ability to cast far is important, so it is better to use long rods of at least 2.40 meters.
The line is put wicker. It can provide the necessary sensitivity and at the same time the strength of the gear. Do not forget about metal or fluorocarbon a leash is also a necessary attribute of tackle.
With the possibility of catching large pike, reliability is important spinning coils. In many ways, the effectiveness of wiring, playing fish and actually all fishing depends on it.
Preference is given to mounting when the hooks are left open. Exception: fishing in heavily grassy and twisted places. There you will have to turn to the installation in the form back hook. Putting a very weighty jig head is not worth it. Pike often takes on the fall, so the bait should sink very smoothly to the bottom, and a heavy sinker can completely eliminate this possibility.
Jig lures for pike
Choosing pike bait is not as easy as it seems. Many anglers are of the opinion that the color, size, shape for pike in the fall does not play any role. This opinion is rather erroneous, and the choice of baits should be taken more seriously. Indeed, pike bite can occur on any jig bait, but this is usually an accident. Only a serious approach in choosing pike baits can guarantee the catch and bite of a trophy predator.
For pike in the fall, the following baits are effective:
- silicone;
- foam.
Silicone bait
There is a huge amount of “silicone” for jig fishing. Different colors, sizes, designs – all this adds some complexity to the choice.
Preference is given to voluminous, strongly floating baits in the water, which are suitable for the slowest possible wiring in places of ambush of a predator.
Color
It is quite difficult to answer the question of what color pike likes the most in autumn. It all depends on the characteristics of a particular reservoir, food supply, weather conditions. It is believed that the bait that imitates the fish that the predator eats is the most catchy, but this rule does not always work. Often pike takes on silicone of a color that has nothing to do with its food supply. In this case, the color is an irritant.
Pike responds best to baits that combine white, green, red colors, “acid” colors, “machine oil” and transparent baits interspersed with sparkles give good results. The use of the latter depends directly on the transparency of water, illumination.
No need to stop at one recommended color. Experiment! The most catchy color can only be chosen by yourself.
Size
With the choice of the size of the bait for pike, everything is a little easier than with the color. Even a small pike can easily attack a fairly large silicone fish. Therefore, for purposeful pike fishing on a jig, “silicone” from 10-15 cm is used. The minimum size can be used with low predator activity or in the absence of trophy fish specimens. It is advisable to use the largest baits in late autumn. It must be remembered that even a large pike will rarely miss a small silicone bait passing by.
The shape of the lures
Autumn fishing is carried out mainly on twisters or vibrotails. Worms, cuttlefish and some other variants are sometimes used. The baits used are equipped with a conventional hook, often with a hinged sinker.
Pike foam jig
Lures made of foam rubber, used more for pike perch, can also bring good luck when hunting autumn pike. Their feature is high efficiency in cold weather. When silicone baits are ignored by fish, “foam rubber” can save fishing.
Form “foam rubber” standard, similar to a small fish, whole or compound. Coloring natural or fantasy. The color of the foam fish is selected according to the same criteria as the color of the silicone ones. Length from 8 centimeters.
Best jig bait
Universal baits for pike are considered vibrotails, with a wide body, 10-15 centimeters in size and with a voluminous heel. As an example, the classic catchy option – vibro tail Relax Hoof or Man Predator, a sort of top 2 “must have”. These baits and options like them have long earned the trust of anglers and are used for catching large fish specimens.
Classic works well twisters large size with a large tail. Sweeping, amplitude movements performed by them during slow wiring are always very popular with pike.
When fishing in snag you can use silicone worms with twister ponytail.
Always a must go fishing jig baits that are made in different colors and different sizes.
Types of rigs
The figure shows the most popular types of jig bait equipment.
- Equipment with a jig head.
- Texas rig.
- Carolina rig.
- “Cheburashka” with a double hook.
- The drop shot.
- With leash.
- Equipment Wacky / Wacky.
Installation of equipment
From the video you will learn how to properly equip the bait jig. The 6 most popular rigging methods are considered.
Technique of fishing
At pike fishing jig there are features depending on the conditions: the chosen place, weather conditions, the presence of a food base for a predator in a reservoir, the nature of the bottom, the presence of natural shelters of a predator, and many other factors.
All autumn pike fishing is conditionally divided into two periods:
- early autumn, during which there is still aquatic and bottom vegetation on the reservoir (September and October, its first half);
- late, when the plants lie down, the water becomes clear and its temperature drops (November).
Each of the periods dictates its own characteristics of fishing. In early autumn, pike is found in a strip of coastal vegetation, in overgrown oxbow lakes and bays, near the edges. In late autumn, it goes to considerable depths, and you can find it at the exit (entrance) or in the pit itself.
On the river, on the pond
Fishing on lakes, ponds is peculiar. The absence of a current, the presence of aquatic vegetation, a small area of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe reservoir will certainly leave an imprint on the behavior of the pike, the features of searching and catching.
In autumn, in closed water bodies, fish adhere to deep places (pits, flooded channels), but its exits to shallow areas, to thickets of reeds or reeds are quite possible. In closed ponds, lakes, there is often a very high concentration of fish in one specific place, unlike rivers.
On a large lake, a boat will provide significant assistance. With its help, you can get to the most promising places, which are located in hard-to-reach places from the shore.
When fishing on the pond, silicone baits are considered the most effective, more often vibrotails, preferably in natural colors (transparent, “under the perch”). Sometimes white coloring works. Lake pikes are always more capricious in choosing their prey than river pikes. There are times when a pike does not react at all to a jig with a classic color lure, so you always need to take a certain set of basic lures for fishing, and sometimes the entire arsenal.
Wiring should be smooth, wavy. Fishing is carried out in the bottom layer.
Catching autumn pike on a jig from the shore
You can catch pike in autumn both from the shore and from a boat. Fishing from the shore is more difficult, it is not always possible to catch all promising places due to the limited range of the cast, but it is also very prolific. Characteristic features of tackle for coastal fishing: long spinning, heavier jig heads.
Shore fishing is most effective in early autumn, when pike is still in the coastal zone. The tactic of catching is reduced to a uniform fishing the most promising places accessible from the shore, changing the types of wiring.
Boat fishing
Fishing from a boat is much more promising than from the shore: you can catch those places that you simply cannot reach from the shore. Requirements for tackle are determined by the absence of restrictions in casting, which allows the use of shorter rods that are lighter in weight sinkers. This fishing option allows you to avoid hooks on the edge of the bank and easily guide the tackle along the coastal vegetation.
Fishing in clear water, with a bottom overgrown with grass
jig Fishing in reservoirs with different vegetation on the bottom has its own characteristics. In places with a clean bottom, baits are mounted on ordinary open hooks. In reservoirs with an overgrown bottom, it is advisable to use offset hooks and mounting methods that exclude permanent hooks. Overgrown reservoirs exclude the possibility of using certain types of wiring.
late autumn
In late autumn, the fish migrate to deep places, and can only be found near holes. She stays at the bottom. Sometimes it goes to smaller parts of the reservoir, but does not move far from its parking place. Biting during the day starts a little later, ends earlier.
Long rods, heavy jig heads, bulky and large lures are used. The deepest places and smaller areas adjacent to them are caught.
Jig wiring and its options, features
One of the ingredients for success is proper wiring. There are no special secret autumn wiring techniques.
First you need to try the usual “step” or step wiring, in which the reeling is periodically carried out with several turns of the reel or with a jerk of the rod. Usually this is enough for autumn pike.
It is very effective to use wave-like or simply uniform near-bottom wiring, in which even inactive fish have time to attack the bait offered to it.
If the fish is completely passive and does not want to react, you can increase the period of the fall of the bait. High toss and a slow fall allows you to provoke a pike that is slightly above the bottom.
Sometimes drag along the bottom brings the result. In this case, when winding the jig bait almost does not come off the bottom. Such wiring is carried out slowly and with periodic stops.
On which reservoir the fisherman would not be, you should always experiment with the types of wiring. The choice of the type of wiring may depend on the bait used, the activity of the fish, its location in the water layers.
A few words about to microji
pike fishing microjig in autumn it is also quite prolific, but the main share of trophies still falls on the share of ordinary spinning rods.
For fishing, you need to choose small bays, edges, blockages a shoemaker. Areas along the line of aquatic vegetation are promising. Uses passive wiring with smooth tosses. Loading gear should be kept to a minimum. The sizes of the lures should be slightly larger than when fishing in the summer.
In conclusion
Autumn jig is different from fishing in the warm season. Nature freezes, and with it the activity of fish decreases. But the pike, anticipating the coming cold, trying to gain as much fat as possible, begins to rush at everything that moves around it. It is at this moment that a silicone fish swimming past it can bring the greatest luck to the angler.