Boat Pike Fishing 2024 vol 1

1. Lookout for Typical Prey Spots
When you’re fishing for species like roach or carp you create a swim with feed to draw them in and hold them. It isn’t the same with pike, instead, you have to put the effort into finding where they’re most likely to be, and as a predator, that’s going to be near their food source - prey fish.
Where the prey fish are located depends on the time of the year, or more importantly the temperature of the water.
Warm Water: The prey fish will be spread out, usually in the shallower areas, meaning the pike could be anywhere.
Cold Water: In autumn and winter, when the mercury drops, the roach and bream that pike eat will look for a more constant temperature in deeper water and so will shoal together in these places… and the pike will not be far away.