Artem Novikov was in touch with us about a recent trip to fish for pike on Lough Derraravgh. Artem likes to make his own lures, and now pike flies, and had some great sport on one of his own creations. If you’d like to try and make your own lures for pike fishing, Artem will show you how on his Makeshift Lures YouTube channel! We’ll let Artem tell his story:
On Sunday I was out on Lough Derravaragh in hopes of tempting trout with my 6cm Duck minnow. A streamer made with mallard feathers.
I was suspecting that pike might take a bite of this streamer so I rigged it up with a thin wire leader made from guitar string.
Everything really comes alive during the month of May including the lake.
I was wade fishing and could really watch mayfly and caddis hatches in real time. As mayfly was coming up through the surface of the water and caddis wore sitting on every blade of bankside weeds and reeds.
And of course casting into the clear gaps between the reeds didn’t take long until I started catching fish one after another. All together it was a good dozen pike I managed to catch in the evening session. Medium to small size with the biggest being in the picture 73cm. On light trout gear them pike made good sport!
