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Northern Pike Fishing Tips For Temagami and Marten River Area Lakes.

Basic Northern Pike Fishing Tips

Northern respond to action and often strike more out of anger or greed rather than hunger. There more action you give your lure the better.

Look for Northern in relatively shallow water along rushes or weedbeds (or over weedbeds) and on bars or reefs.

In mid-summer, however, they may be found in much deeper water (10' to 25').

Northerns do not feed at night (unless there is a very bright moon). Their major feeding periods are mid-morning, noon and early in the evening.

Northerns rarely hit a surface lure. Generally speaking they are most apt to see and to be attracted to lures fished about half-way between the bottom and the surface.

When Northerns move into the deeper waters during the mid-summer, try bottom fishing. Lures worked over weedbeds (but just under the surface) are often very productive.

Large minnows (6" to 9") are excellent bait for big northerns (suckers, chubs and shiners in this order!).

Try minnows still fishing with a bobber or troll them hooked through the nose with a large Lindy Rig.

Always give a Northern ample tim to take the bait-at least a full minute.

Giant Northerns are often found in spring near sucker spawning grounds or in the fall where Crappies are schooling up.

Spoons, bucktails, crank baits and large "plugs" are effective when trolled or retrieved rapidly and radically.

When trolling, move at least two or three times as fast for walleyes.

White jigs with red and white feathers often work well plain or baited. Use at least a 20# leader or the Northerns are apt to bite the lure off.

Since the 1940's, Ridgewood Cottage Resort has been a favorite Temagami fishing vacation, experience through the four seasons of the year. We think you'll like what you see, whatever the season, whatever your vacation needs.

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Removing the Skin From Pike and Other Fish

By R. Karl

Many people have written me to ask if there is a trick to removing the skin from a northern pike, especially since there is a bit of extra knowledge required to get rid of those nasty Y-bones. The answer is: not really.

Removing the skin from a Northern Pike - a process not really any different from removing the skin from a walleye (shown in photos at right), bass or any fish for that matter – is even easier than removing the y-bones from Pike. Using some sort of gripper - pliers work well - grab hold of the very tail of the fillet using your left hand (I'll assume that you are right-handed) with the rest of the fillet pointed away from you. With your fillet knife, cut down at an angle just until you reach the skin (obviously being careful not to cut through the skin… which is very easy to do).

Keeping pressure on the back side of the blade, begin to move the knife toward the other end of the fillet, ensuring that the blade stays at a shallow angle between the meat and the skin. At this point and with your left hand, you can actually begin to pull the tail away and in a direction opposite to the way the knife is moving.

While pulling, if you move the tail in sort of a horizontal s-curve/back and forth motion, it makes the task easier. The skin will peel off like it is hardly attached… and voila, you have a skinless and boneless fillet o' Pike!

Hope that helps. It too make take a bit of practice (emphasis on bit), but far less than removing the y-bones. Once the skin is off, there are a multitude of possibilities in terms of the way to prepare your now boneless and skinless Northern Pike fillet: fried is very good and how most seem to enjoy it... or you can even try Northern Pike stir-fry, or baked or – well, you get the idea.

But some time when you get some really fresh Pike - a 3 or 4-pounder works really well! And contrary to the opinion – and myth actually – that many mistakenly believe, the bigger the Pike, the whiter the meat… and the better the flavor. Walleye, by the way, is exactly the opposite. Those really big 'eyes (over 17-19 inches) are tough and do not have the almost sweet flavor of the smaller fish.

Good luck and please let me know how it goes.

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