trophy pike…on hot dogs

[Lee Borgersen]

            Late-ice trophy pike…on hot dogs??

Yes Hot dogs!

On the business end, Arnesen, impaled a 12-inch sucker or similar-sized dead bait to the beaded and spinner-adorned Quick Strike Rig. “These big pike are feeding primarily on ciscoes, so big suckers and dead bait are often the ticket, but not all the time. Sometimes they’ll eat hot dogs.”

Yes, you heard right. Hot dogs.



“It’s something we picked up from the guys in the Dakotas. Like everybody, at first we shook our heads. Then we started catching big fish. And on those days when suckers or dead bait work better, you can grill the dogs,” Arnesen says, laughing.

On that particular day I fished with Arnesen, no Oscar Mayer flags flew, though we did fill our bellies with a few. That day, the pikes’ favorite footlong was a beefy sucker minnow. We caught several large pike, but Arnesen took top honors with a 42-incher.


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[LPS]

Good one.   

[dakids]

It works.  Some days they work  better than live bait.