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Northern Pike Fishing Tips and Dr. Juice

Pike tips to catching plenty of fish. Northern pike are another south dakota fish I love to catch. I've always found the late summer pike fishing and the fall pike fishing to be the biggest fish and the best northern pike fishing of the year. With these tips you will catch plenty of fish. Northern pike are a freshwater fish and are found in most midwestern lakes and rivers. Lol, pike will teach you how to reel big fish, quick!

Using Dr. Juice on northerns was the first thing I ever tested that exceeded my expectations and I had a ton of fun testing it. My dad and I both loved catching walleyes and northerns but we wanted big walleyes and northerns. Crappies and perch were fun too but big fish was our goal so that's mostly what we fished for.

When Dr. Juice first came out it was advertised and explained intensively in every fishing magazine I received and even had a few articles in smaller newspapers in Minnesota. With all of that I decided to give it a try.

My first tests were when my wife, dad and I were fishing together. We were using live suckers in the 6-10 inch range. Hey, big bait for big fish. ;) We wee fishing Lake Yankton in Balaton Minnesota on the north side of the lake where we had caught lots of walleyes and northerns in the past.

It was early september and the water wasn't that cold yet but cold enough so not many were swimming or water skiing anymore. Minnesota only allowed one rod per person and we were about 10 yards apart, using heavy steel leaders, monofilament line and fishing our big suckers right on the bottom.

We had our limits of three fish per person in about an hour and I thought the northerns were biting quite well but my wife and my dad both had different opinions about that. Of course that may be because I caught 7 in that time and they each caught one apiece. They were quite irritated that I had been so much luckier than they were.

What they didn't know is I was secretly using two drops of Dr. Juice on each sucker I used. I never told them and they never caught me so it was a lot of fun to see them get irritated. My dad kept telling me after we went home, how lucky I was and how bad he was going to kick my butt when we went fishing he next day. I just laughed and said, yeah, right.

We went back to the exact same spot the next day and started fishing again, same bait, same leaders and same line. Nothing had changed from the day before. In the first 20 minutes I was ahead of them 3 fish to none. Neither had even had a bite and I'd had 4 and caught 3. My dad was really getting mad and I was laughing so hard I could hardly cast my line out.

Finally I took pity on them and showed them what I was doing. I wouldn't have waited so long but my dad was one of those people who swore the new types of scents didn't work and were a waste of money. They were a bit expensive back then so that's why I didn't tell him. He's one of those people you have to prove things to first, before he will try it.

Anyway I finally showed them and put two drops on each of their baits too. Guess what, they also started catching fish and even tho I was ahead 3 to zip when I showed them when we had our limits again this time the result were I caught 4, my dad caught 3 and my wife caught 2. They were both amazed that two drops of liquid could make such a big difference. My dad was convinced and that was what I was after.

We successfully hid our little secret from everyone for a couple of years. We never again fished northerns in cold water without using Dr. Juice. Then I made an even better discovery.

The fact that at least one scent worked so well on one species made me pay more attention to scent and I discovered that people using dead smelt for bait for northerns were doing very well. The reason for it seemed to be that the smelt gave off a smell the permeated the water. Smelt are an oily fish so I decided to try them instead of big suckers. A bucket full of big suckers can be hard to keep alive but frozen smelt don't have that problem.

Once again I tricked my dad and my wife by using Dr. Juice on my smelt. My dad said the smelt had enough smell by themselves and once again I never told them I was using it. Smelt worked terrifically well by themselves but finding big smelt was a problem so I used to buy a lot of them and keep them in my freezer when I found them.

The results were the same as when we were using suckers. I could consistently outfish both of them and once again they were irritated at me. BTW, we were fishing at Lake Yankton, yet again. This time I didn't wait as long to tell them tho and when they started putting some Dr. Juice on their smelt we were back to being equal. Most people think like my dad, that smelt have enough smell to them that you don't need to add scent. That's wrong if you want to catch more fish and I proved that to them too.

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