Catching pike with bait fish on the bottom from the bank is the goal of Rute&Rolle editor Jesco Peschutter. When fishing for pike in winter with bait fish, he wants to catch beautiful predatory fish. How do you fish for pike with bait fish? Jesco wants to give tips and tricks for pike fishing with bait fish on the bottom for beginners and novices, how he goes about it and which bait fish he offers when bottom fishing for pike. When is the best time to catch pike? In winter, he goes to the water for stand fishing in order to catch big pike. There was snow a few days ago and temperatures were minus 14 degrees at night. The lake was newly frozen, bad for pike on bait fish, but now the water is open for fishing. Jesco wants to fish for pike with dead bait fish. He uses self-made bottom rigs as equipment and accessories. At dusk, Jesco arrives at the lake and sets up the rods with rigs that lie in the water for a quick bite. He explains which pike fishing bait he uses, what the tactics are and the bait fish rig for pike on the bottom. What do pike bite best on? When deadbaiting for pike, Jesco likes to fish for saltwater fish as dead bait fish such as herring from the supermarket or mackerel as bait fish, which give off aroma and attractants underwater. What is the best bait fish for pike? A top natural bait for deadbait fishing for pike in winter is herring, often better than artificial bait such as rubber fish and wobblers. An alternative bait for pike is sardines frozen as bait fish when pike fishing from the shore on a lake. Whitefish such as roach, rudd or small bream are real top baits for pike when shore fishing. Perch as bait fish is also a good bait for deadbaiting for pike. Jesco changes the bait fish basic rig to pike on a pike rod. For the rig, he uses a steel leader with two treble hooks on the basic rig. When winding up the bait fish with a bait needle, the pike leader is pulled through the rudd. When the leader has been pulled through the fish, the small treble hooks are inserted into the tail and head of the bait fish so that a quick strike is made when it bites. This is how to successfully rig and wind up the bait fish correctly. Since the herring on the basic bait fish rig does not produce any live bites, the new fish is put on the pike bait fish rig with a ledger boom, pearl, swivel, steel as a leader and a lead of 50 to 90 grams depending on the casting distance. This allows the pike deadbait rig to run freely. Frozen bait fish for pike hold better on the hook when casting. The old herring as bait fish is cut into pieces to feed predatory fish underwater. If there are no bites when fishing for pike with bait fish, you should change hotspots and locations of the rigs in order to look for the best spots for pike on the bank in shallow water, in deep water and in open water and to be able to find the pike in the lake. To get more bites, Jesco places a rod with a pike rig and bait fish on the bottom in front of the reeds, where he has baited with herring. He has taken the deadbait rod from the rod pod and placed it with line on a bankstick with a bite indicator. When deadbaiting for pike in winter, you can't expect many bites. Jesco fishes at dusk, in the dark and at night. But even though he has opened the reel brake slightly so that the predator doesn't feel any resistance when it bites, no fish come. The next morning and day he is back at the lake with a dead bait fish pike rig so he can catch big pike. He wants to use smelt as a pike fishing rig, on the bottom and not with a float. There is a live bite while fishing. Monster on the hook! Jesco fights the big pike and is able to land the giant fish with the landing net after the fight. The fat winter pike measures 1.01 meters. What a big meter-long pike when simply fishing with a sardine as bait fish. Another live bite while predatory fish fishing in front of the reeds! The pike is almost 80 centimeters long and took the smelt as bait fish in the rain. Pike fishing in winter with bait fish on the bottom in the lake with a deadbaiting rig brings success even in windy conditions. Predatory fish fishing from the shore of the lake for pike with a bait fish rig on the bottom rocks not only in winter, but also when fishing in summer, autumn and spring! #pike #fishing #baitfish Music: Sunny Fruit - Winter Groove, The North - Wild Ride Camera: Jesco Peschutter Film editing: Kristina Wolf ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ANGLERBOARD TV ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to the channel and enjoy helpful, exciting and great fishing videos completely free of charge! ▶️ Subscribe to ABTV now & don't miss any more videos: https://www.youtube.com/AnglerboardTV... ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ SOCIAL MEDIA ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► ANGLERBOARD Homepage: ▶️ https://www.anglerboard.de/ Facebook: ▶️ / anglerboard Instagram: ▶️ / anglerboard ► RUTE & ROLLE Homepage: ▶️ https://ruteundrolle.de/ Facebook: ▶️ / ruteundrolle Instagram: ▶️ / ruteundrolle