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Thanks for the info. It's archived now. Just need to find some fancy flies like Ingwe. Next investment is a fly tying kit.
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brinky; the flies are easy to tie yourself! get a kit and a few materials and you are golden...MUCH easier that trout flies, and pike dont much care how they look, as long as they are bright, and move....  Ingwe Ohh and P.S. Use Superglue or Superglue gel for head cement on the pike flies.... 
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ingwe....question, do the rabbit strips ever wrap around the hook while you're casting?
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Thanks for the info. It's archived now. Just need to find some fancy flies like Ingwe. Next investment is a fly tying kit. I wouldn't reccomend a kit. They've got bad materials and stuff you'll never use. The hackles are sub-par. Plus, they're relatively expensive given that you will never use 40% of what they furnish. Get yourself a good vise, a thread bobbin, a hair stacker, good scissors and the rest depending on what flies you want to tie: thread (3/0 for big pike flies, ) Bunny strips, marabou, deer body hair, buck tails, chenille, lead wire for weight. A big hair bug like used for bass, except with a longer trail, works pretty good. I've fished several times for pike in N. Michigan, and the ones I've caught are voracious and good fighters for a few minutes and then give it up. The only reason you need a heavy rod and line is to throw the big flies.
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Good stuff, thanks.
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Thanks for the info. It's archived now. Just need to find some fancy flies like Ingwe. Next investment is a fly tying kit. I wouldn't reccomend a kit. They've got bad materials and stuff you'll never use. The hackles are sub-par. Plus, they're relatively expensive given that you will never use 40% of what they furnish. Get yourself a good vise, a thread bobbin, a hair stacker, good scissors and the rest depending on what flies you want to tie: thread (3/0 for big pike flies, ) Bunny strips, marabou, deer body hair, buck tails, chenille, lead wire for weight. A big hair bug like used for bass, except with a longer trail, works pretty good. I've fished several times for pike in N. Michigan, and the ones I've caught are voracious and good fighters for a few minutes and then give it up. The only reason you need a heavy rod and line is to throw the big flies. Where about in Michigan? If you tie into one on the big water (Superior) you might want to strap yourself into the boat. There are some dandies lurking in the deep cold water up there. My dad tied into one that snapped 40# steel line like cob web. Not much a fly rod would do against that kind of monster.
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ingwe....question, do the rabbit strips ever wrap around the hook while you're casting? KY, sorry it took so long to answer, but yes, they do, on occasion. Ordinarily, they behave pretty well, but you can imagine its like casting a wet sock.However, fly fishing for pike in Alberta one day yielded a "personal best" 55 pike on 55 consecutive casts...busy afternoon Ingwe
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Wowsa that is incredible!!
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Its all in the flies I tie....  I can "hook you up"... Ingwe
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Dober, did anything come of either my flies or those extra jigs I sent?
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Yeah have them in my box at the lake, caught a smallie on one of the flies a while back. Thx again, it's always a blast to use flies that you get from someone you know.
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Okey-doke, thanks.
Of course, I'd rather you said that those pictured monsters fell for my creations, but...
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I'll get some pics on my fall trip, promise
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Ingwe,that's about what I figured. If you are catching fish every cast, there's no time for the rabbit strips to wrap around the hook though. They're good looking flies for those toothy critters.
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Yeah, and an alternative to casting is to let the wind drift your boat, and just mini-strip it...I know, I know...lazy man's way...but it works just as good, and keeps the fly in the water longer... Ingwe
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Hmm, you sly young dog I thought I was the originator of that one. As per usual you beat me to it...grin
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Mark and Ingwe,
that lazy man's way has a proper term, and is a very accepted practice for landlocked atlantics, and even in some canadian waters with true sea-run fish. It is called "harling." And doesn't that take the snobbery level of flyfishing to a new level!?!
Just returned from Wollaston lake Lodge, 8-days of bliss in northern saskatchewan. Fly rodding northerns and grayling, jiggin lakers and walleyes. Best day size-wise was six pike over 40, all on the fly, and all but one sight-fished.
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WLL--man would I ever like to go there!!!
Got pics?
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Mark, the place underpromises and overdelivers-- just as a lodge or any business should. It is much better than advertised. go to their website, www.wollastonlakelodge.com Then, click on the brag board. My trips were 11-16, 16-20 of July. Each guest gets one photo per session on there, determined by the photo tech. Warning, you'll be drooling!
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I have a kind of off topic question, kind of. What time of year is the worst for fishing for Pike? I've heard it's near the end of July or August. Something about them shedding teeth??????? I fished ALOT growing up on Lake Superior and never heard of this. I thought the angry buggers bite all the time if properly provoked?
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