Without doubt it is surely the most important part of pike fishing, how we handle and care for the pike we catch, certainly there is a lot of evidence to show that bad handling and poor fishcare will kill pike. This starts with how you put the hooks in the bait.

One of the key reasons for creating the original pike website 10 years ago was to enable this point to be explained to a much wider audience of pike anglers, one might consider that this was for anglers coming into pike fishing, the novices and juniors, but increasingly it is a resource that hopefully some of the 'experienced' pike anglers can take on board, as some of these have a need to rethink their approach to caring for their quarry better.

As an individual pike angler with a message, contact with a large number of pike anglers is very restricted, occasionally the audience for coaching or teaching is increased, but overal each of us is likely to see very few and pass on very little advice and guidance. The answer is to communicate through websites and other modern media forms and to put the guidance within the reach of every potential pike angler young and old, new and experienced.

Hopefully this website and the content herein passes on some of the details that make pike fisshing more enjoyable for the angler and much healthier for the pike.

There is detail on the subjects How the Pike Takes a Bait, Bite Indication, Handling in general and how to deal with Deep Hooked Pike, if you are unfortunate to experience this situation.

So please look at and absorb the points being made and hopefully be a more caring pike angler when fishing for pike. The fishcare starts when and how you put the hooks in the bait, everything else is easier if you get this rigt!