Spoon baits for pike fishing

the Greatest group of artificial lures is formed by spoon baits.
Spoon baits have various forms and the sizes, including round, oval or oblong, often a little bent in the form of the Latin letter «S» for imitation of the various fishes serving by extraction to predators. In quiet water it is better to use oval or round spoons. They float in water, rocking here and there but if to increase speed, they start to rotate, and consequently are not suitable for a fishing in a fast current.

Spoon baits

In fast and rough streams (and also in reservoirs where predators are fed with small, promptly floating small fishes) are used narrow, oblong, it is frequent in the form of the letter «S» spoon baits. The the bait is more bent, the more she wags in the sides, increasing the fluctuations in process of water passage on its concave surface. As for attraction of fish of a spoon bait should be in constant movement, they are a little effective in stagnant water. Without a current promoting their swimming they are necessary for underreelinging with a speed which is too great for stagnant water.

Between these two groups there are the lure well working both at fast, and at slow reeling. As two classical examples it is possible to result "tobies" and "dardevle".

Spoon baits make of thick or thin metal, they can be compact and heavy, big and extralight. The good spoon bait is easily thrown, quickly sinks, seductively looks in water and is capable to beckon fish on a hook. At short throws, for example, in ponds or streams, such spoon bait it is unsurpassed simulates a floating small fish. At distant throws from piers or beaches or against a wind to work with a spoon bait simply enough, that makes this bait rather popular.

Fishing in deep waters demands heavier and compact spoon baits which quickly plunge on the necessary depth and remain there during reeling. For a fishing on shoal and even at a small current is better to take advantage of easier spoon baits simulating the floating small fish. To force heavy spoon baits to repeat on depth movements of a live small fish it is almost impossible.
Spnners frequently are rather good-catching, as create the vibrations easily extending in water and fish drawing attention.

To achieve realistic and seductive movements of a bait in any water is a paramount problem. The key to success at a fishing on a spoon bait consists in ability to subsurface a spoon bait on level of dwelling of fish and then to underreeling it with a speed which fish perceives as natural.

Popularity of spoon baits speaks simplicity and efficiency of their use. Signals made by them provoke fish to an attack. These lures keep the durability when fish sits down on a hook irrespective of, in whose hands has a fishing-rod, expert or the beginner. As a rule, baits rather frivolously playing to water are involved with less fishes, than the baits exactly behaving throughout all conducting. But, on the other hand, often enough brisk not ordinary game of a spoon-bait provokes a predator to attack.

Protection of spoon baits against hooks

Spoon baits can be secured against gearing by a hook for seaweed, leaves of a water-lily, a snag, stones and other subjects.

The hook is protected by means of a piece of a thin wire or rather elastic nylon fishing-line. Such spoon baits are convenient for using at a fishing in strongly overgrown reservoirs, however they operate not so well, as spoon baits with an open hook as protecting a hook from hooks the adaptation often prevents to swallow to fish a bait.

Pirkes and diamond jigs

Compact, graceful and heavy enough for the sizes metal baits are called a pirke, a pilkere, a dajmond-jig or jigging-spoons. In water of their movement become slow, equal and attractive to fish from the moment of the beginning of reeling or the first movement of a fishing-rod. Their advantage consists in incomparable possibilities of a throw because of what these baits often use for a fishing in deep water and for distant throws.
Sometimes pirkes use also for a subglacial fishing where they remind a little fish which temptation of extraction it is difficult to predator to resist. These baits are made of copper, iron or lead.