The best lure by far for pike is a plain old red and white dardevil. I use that first thing everytime I pike fish somwhere. I don' t know what it is about the color but they love it. Pike fishing for me is the most relaxing thing I can do. It may seem a little basic and not very challenging but I would say 80% of pike I' ve caught in my life have on a cigar style float and a chub or smelt set down about 1/2 to 2/3 the actual depth of the water you' re fishing. There' s nothing better than seeing that float get pulled under and start swiming away it' s the unltimate. The only thing you have to remember fishing that way is to weight the float just right so it sits kind of like a water logged log other wise the fish will feel to much resistance when he or she pulls it down and they will let it go. There are lines on the floats so you will know what I' m talking about. You have to weight it so teh water level is sitting near teh top line of the float. Also when they initally hit alot of guys want to set the hook right away (bad idea) when a pike hits somthing like that he will usually take it down and run with it for a little ways just holding it in his mouth. Thus if the hook is set to early all the guy does is pull teh bait out of the fish mouth without hooking anything. After the run he will stop and then acctually consume the bait and then start to move again. It' s after he statrs moving the second time you want to set the hook. You will lose alot less fish this way I guarantee it.

The other 20% would be a toss up between the Husky Jerk, the Hellcat (which for some reason they don' t make anymore) red and white redeye' s, red and white daredevils, white lead heads with a white twister tail works really good, lindy gator spoons and somthing new I' m trying this year that I have used 2 times and each of the 2 times I' ve used it I' ve pulled in 4 pike between 12-18 lbs, is the lindy tiger tube.