Catching a pike on a spinning reel is considered quite a stroke of luck in fishing, as this fish is very intelligent and cunning.
Did you know that the largest pike caught in Russia was caught and officially registered on the aforementioned Lake Ladoga near the city of Sortavala? The fish weighed a whopping 49 kilograms and 200 grams and was caught on live bait—a 5-kilogram pike that had just been caught on a lure and dragged to the shore.
Pike eat anything they see, including small fish, ducklings, their own kind, and even frogs. There have been many cases where fishermen found cans from canned goods, glass bottles, and other harmful items to this predator inside pike.
Pike fishing is a whole craft, but even an careless angler sometimes manages to pull out “trophy” specimens from the river. And the most interesting thing we’ve ever observed in our lives is what a pike looks like at night.
Pike are not afraid of light, and at night, when they approach the shore to spend the night, you can approach them very closely and see all the splendor of their shimmering scales in the beams of the flashlight.
Take a look at the picture below. You can notice a trophy pike specimen in it. Can you find the fisherman himself in this picture?
