Best Lure colours For Pike

Did you know that a black hose is the most visible colour underwater?

In both clear and dark waters, black creates the most visible silhouette and stands out a lot more than other colours.

Black and Ghost Colours For Dull Days

Pike vision is designed to look above, in front and even partially behind, giving almost an all round scan for prey.e pikes attack range.

Predominantly looking up, baitfish stand out at the surface of the water against the skylight.

These baitfish look like dark shadows in the eyes of a predator.

A very good example of this is most shark programs showing great whites hunting seals. Lurking in the depths the sharks looks above for the shadows of prey.

Making a burst of speed the shark move through the water layers and seizes its prey giving no chance to the fallen victim.

A pike is very similar in the way it approaches its next meal.

The difference with pike is they are also stelth hunters. Laying camourflaged in wait for the expecting prey to swim into the pikes attack zone.

Black or ghost patterns of lure baits are a great start. Pike will see a black lure against the skylight near the surface of the water more than other colours.

Ghost lures that contain a translucent body are very effect on dull days fished deeper in the water.

They do replicate how baitfish appear at depth to a predator naturally.

Pike on the other hand do not take notice of intricate details that many lure makers design of lures to resemble a real fish. When i am retrieving a lure at speed the maybe jerking then twitching to create a dying fish action, do you think a pike looks at the details of the lure?

Definitely not.

Colour can play a big part on some days and others it does not seem to matter.

One thing through experience i found out, on sunny days on wier pools pike just love flat coloured green top with yellow bellies.

A real exaggerated wiggle close to the surface produce an abundance of hard hitting pike even taking a zander on one occasion in a very hot sunny day.

That poor cheap lure after a few fantastic sessions was destroyed by the hard hitting predators.

The general rule of thumb even with salmon anglers using fly fishing tactics is bright lure for bright days and dark lures for dull days.

Really it has a lot to do with your own personal fath you have in the lure you are using.

Many anglers with change lures without giving the a chance because they have no confidence in the lure to begin with.

Best colour lure for pike on a bright day

These bright colours like the bright greens yellows and orange are the perfect choice not forgetting an old favourite the redhead that proves itself time and time again for decades.

The actual lure choice away from colour all depends on many different factors like depth you want to fish. Also the action of your lure that is preferable to your own intentions.

Overall bright colour tones on sunny days are the best lure colours for pike.

Best colour lure for pike on a dull day

Totally opposite to bright sunny days a dull day requires dark shades providing to be the best Lure colours for pike.

These three lures are the colours that stand out the most to pike on a dull day. Includes lure containing a lot of black, and even a completely black pike lure is ideal.

Natural appearing lures that tend to be of a darker variety give off that grey ghost effect creating a silhouette will work exceptionally well too.

Best weather for pike fishing

Best weather for pike fishing through years of my own experience seems to be dull late Autumn days that are not cold and even a little warmer than usual.

Active bait fish can be seen regularly breaking the water.

This is a good indicator for locating pike. A pike is not to far away from the baitfish they hunt.

When schools of small fish are in schools the create a commotion of vibrations and noise underwater that predators home in on knowing there is food available.

The equivalent of a dinner bell to humans.

Casting a lure by schooling baitfish can produce some ferocious hit on your bait.

I found casting around the sides of projected shoals of fish and retrieving in jerks and twitches imitating a dying fish stands out to a pike and becomes the main focus for an easy meal from a group of healthy fish.

A great time to catch pike. The last hour of light on any given day is not to be missed. Many of pike are caught in this pike feeding time before nighttime rolls in.

Does Detailed Lures Work Better For Pike?

Try to picture a lure bait that is being retrieved fast with jerks and twitches making gliding darting manoeuvres the pike is hardly going to notice detailed art work in the lures colouring.

Of course not! Pike does not care about the details.

The main objective whem you lure fishing for pike is to imitate as closely as possible the food you believe the pike are preying upon.

Taking into consideration the natural light and how the bait will appear under these circumstances to and underwater predator.

In clear and dull weather a natural or dark bait will represent how the pike sees baitfish in these conditions underwater.

On bright sunny clear days the sun will illuminate a lot of reflected colours.

A colour packed lure can be incredibly successful, patterns like fire tidger, green and yellow chartreuse and hot reds will work exceptionally well

The main thing to take into account is the action of the lure. Retrieving the lure correctly to imitate an injured, dying or escaping fish are the general rules for success.

Alternating these key dactors and whey up the preferred technique that pike will attack on the day.

Different techniques change day by day, so regularly changing your tactics till you find the golden formula to provoke pike takes is the right strategy to take into account.

These details are done to get you started.

Pike sees colours on the surface different to what we do

When you pull to the surface, the pike goes everything under your lure. Duchy could you say why is this important?

Well, we all know that Pike is a visual prey stalker.

This means that a pike will hunt mainly with its eyes.

A hunting pike waiting low in the water usually against a snag or weed cover to remain camourflaged scans the water surface and anything moving in the upper layers of the water.

So, if you can imagine your are underwater and see a shoal of fish above you they appear grey or black shadows against the skylight.

This is exactly how the pike sees its prey. Detail of the fish such as fin colour , gill plates and scale patterns are not visible.

The only other visual aspect is the preys movement.

This is were the lure fisherman can work there magic.

A pike will take its time looking for the weaker fish in the shoal. This is very much like a lion watching wilder beast trying to single out the weak.

Once the weak has been identified the predator homes in.

The lure fisherman can use this knowledge to there advantage by imitating the weak or injured fish.

Once the pike has chosen the subject all hell breaks loose.

Bare in mind from a standing start over 1 meter a pike can reach a speed that the best Ferrari can only dream of.

If a pike hits your lure with this conviction i think you may imagine how it might feel!

A lure like this is also a good choice in dull conditions. Not because of the detail this colour give a nice silhouette appearance that the pike expect its prey to look like.

Light reflection is a powerful colour for pike!

Looking back to the beginning of the pike, where people used spoons and spinners.

Today, the Lures are much more complex, but still, a spoon or a spinner can be an amazingly effective lure. Why is this What can we learn from it?

There are two things that a spoon and a rouleau have in common.

Which is vibration and light reflection.

If we look at a scaled skin and its abundance of colour tones, manufacturers no longer use such reflective material or colour variations.

Lures that give offvibratins like a rattle or spinner blade can be picked up with the very sensitive lateral line of pike. This indicator sends the message that this is living prey and quickly drawes the pikes attention.

Soft lure baits are good for this with paddle and curly tails have excellent vibrating factors.

However, on the brightest and sunniest days, this is the hottest colour for fishing!

Even in deep water, there is still light penetration and a colour that reflects light can be quite devastating for large pike.

So do not choose bright colours from your lure box on these sunny days, try something less striking!

Personal faith is the best colour you can fish removing self doubt to persevere with!

Many pike anglers have their own idea of ​​what works best.

When asked, they generally have a colour that seems to work best for you, be it yellow, orange, white, black, or any other colour. Is this really the best colour for that water?

Or is it just the colour that is usually printed on the water to catch the pike? It is difficult to argue with local success.

But if there is a lot of fishing and almost everyone uses the same colour, it may be a good idea to use a different shade of popular colour, or even a completely different colour.

Pike hitting a Mike The Pike lure fished with a slow retrieve.