How to catch pike with poles
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In addition to catching pike by spinning, there is a relatively long-standing type of pike fishing for pike fishing poles. How to catch pike on a pike spinner? 
Description of pike
Pike - voracious predatory fish, reaching large, over a meter in size, living in bodies of water with clear water (both standing and flowing). Pike in the reservoir adheres to areas overgrown with aquatic vegetation, pools and whirlpools, accumulated on the bottom of the water rhizomes and sunken trees.
For her, these places serve as an ambush when catching prey - fish, which it feeds on. Pike, unlike most fish, does not have a period of winter standing in one place, and continuously moving in search of food.
Conforming to the habitats and its year-round nutrition, pike can be caught throughout the year, using live fish for bait (more information: Bait for fish).
Catching pike on spinnerbaits
Sometimes an angler who is engaged in catching any other kind of fish, but not predatory, suddenly at the pecking pulls out of the water pike. This happens in the case of catching on the hook earlier small fish and grabbing it then pike, which swam at this time past the fish. For catching pike is specially used zhivtsovaya rod, called zherlitsa, baited with gudgeon, spruce, bleak and other small fish.
Having made a few fishing rods, the fisherman baits a livebait on steel leashes with double hooks, which are directed by their stings to the head of the livebait. The leash is connected to the fishing line (cord) by means of a rotating carabiner.
The rod is tied above the water (less often in the water) to vine bushes, leaning over the water trees or to a peg specially driven into the bottom of the pond, provided that the bait floats 25-50 cm from the water surface. 
In winter, when catching pike with a spinneret, fishermen make a hole in the ice and put across it a stick, to which tie the spinneret. The bait is lowered into the water to a depth of up to half a meter from the surface. 
Catching pike spinning
Along with passive, attached to one place of fishing tools - zhurlitsy, there is an active way of catching pike spinning. To these tackles amateur fishermen attach various standard and homemade blades, artificial, live and dead fish.
In lakes, standard oscillating blades are used, in rivers - rotating blades. Feeling the bite of the pike, and it is determined by pulling the fishing line from the coil, the angler should slightly let go of the fishing line, and then sharply hook. After hooking the pike mind in the water, then releasing, then pulling up the fishing line and, bringing the pike to himself, remove it from the water with a sucker.
Take the hook out of the mouth of the pike should be a special stick-fork after the pike is pre-stunned by a blow to the head. Catching pike by spinning and fishing line is very common among amateur fishermen.
