| We fish a few nearby lakes for Northern Pike, Arctic Grayling, and Rainbows. The Pike fishing is usually very good because there's not very much fishing pressure on these lakes and ponds. On many lakes, we are the only ones who fish them, and we only hit each lake a few times per year. This low fishing pressure makes the pike hit flies and lures even better than they usually do!
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Northern Pike are a lot of fun. We catch them using both flies and lures. |
| There are hundreds of lakes in our general area, and Pike can occur in most of them. A few of the shallower ones freeze solid in the winter, but most don't. |
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Northern Pike are native to this area and occur in almost every lake that doesn't freeze solid in the winter. Pike fishing is a lot of fun because much of it is sight fishing. You usually see the pike in the edge of the grass and can cast right to it, and of course, being a pike, they instantly hit it as they usually hit everything that moves.
We keep canoes and small boats in a couple of the larger lakes, and that allows you to cover more area. Your Guide can paddle and you can cast.
For the larger Northern Pike, we usually fish in a little deeper water. We have found that the larger pike like to stay out from the shore further, in the deeper areas, perhaps where it's cooler.
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We use our canoes and small boats to allow us to fish the deeper water and catch the bigger Northern Pike.
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Most of the lakes that we fish are not far away and the short hikes to these areas are very scenic.
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There's also some good Rainbow fishing from time to time on some of these small lakes. Though not as large as the Kvichak Rainbows, they are a lot of fun.
We keep using dry flies on the lakes as they work well all summer for the resident Rainbows.
Many times the rainbows are brightly colored which gave rise to the term "Leopard Rainbows of Bristol Bay."
Mouse Patterns work very well on both the Rainbow Trout and the Pike.
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