Good evening

I have a 8/9 weight GRXi rod and a scierre XDP 7/9 reel with a floater.

What do need to stick on the end of it in the way of leaders etc. I assume Pike are more likley to bite through conventional leader material than trout ?

Can any one recommend some locations in kent for pike on the fly ?

Regards

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I suggest you look at http://www.pikeflyfishing.co.uk
Plenty of good advice on there.

For wire leaders http://www.eddieturner.co.uk

Colin

I use the ROMAN MOSER , pike leader .

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A pike will bite through mono or other nylon line like me biting through a corn flake, visit your local tackle shop and get yourself some 7 strand and slim crimps. Just use a pair of pliers to set the crimps and a swivel at each end for your snap tackle. Happy hunting.

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here we go again

I would like to correct that statement to:

A pike may bite through mono or other nylon line like me biting through a corn flake....


I do not use wire, I use either 0.80mm hard mono or more recently 0.60mm fluoro (both from RIO).

And before the inevitable "you've been luck mate" pops up -

I have caught what probably amounts to a few hundred pike (and I don't mean jacks) on the fly over the past 5 or 6 years and during that time I have only lost a couple due to bite offs; both of them were as it happened on the same day last autumn.

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... but it will never bite through wire!

Perhaps even one bite off is one too many?

Allrounder

Without wishing to open the debate about trace wire again (not least because minds are clearly already made up), I suspect the actual reason for not that many bite offs when fly fishing, the same as when spinning/lure fishing, is that most pike are hooked in the jaw, whereas with dead-baiting a trace is absolutely essential because the pike will usually be more deeply hooked. The consequences of a lost pike with a pair of trebles embedded in it from dead-baiting are also a lot worse than one lost with a single (barbless?) hook in its lip, which is no different to any other lost fish. Personally though I would never fish for pike without a wire trace, whatever method I am using. To put it the other way round, why NOT use one?

Try Proleader - its knottable and also doesn't kink.

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my advice would also be use wire for a trace or even pro leader and join the club www.pffa.co.uk they will answer any thing you wish to now all the best pike_fly_angler

Yes especialy a pike of a lifetime what a bummer to loose one because you use mono

I have guided many anglers and mono will never be a sure shot like wire no if or buts you can ask one of my client that lost his pike of a lifetime last summer if he still use mono his answer is simply yes but with wire tied to it close to the fly

Jocelin

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Has anyone thoroughly tried the use of the "superlines" like SpiderWire, and Fireline in place of mono or wire as leaders?

I don't fish pike deliberately, but I end up catching about a dozen of them a year when smallmouth bass fishing. I was thinking that 50 pound SpiderWire as a leader because wire affects the action of floating bass flies too much, but I don't want to leave a fly sticking in.

Anyone tried the braided lines?

Grouse