Fish high at the beginning and try your way down in the water columns, the pike rise quickly and can stand close to the surface.

Make fewer pauses when fishing pelagically. Pike are used to chasing fleeing fish and often strike while cranking.

Don't forget to test the hardbaits! It can be really effective, as you can see in the video!

When choosing a pike fishing rod, you don't base it on "how big fish" you're going to catch, but rather "how big baits" you want to cast. When fishing for pelagic pike, you usually use slightly larger lures with heavier weights. The result is that you should preferably go up a size in the casting weight of the rod.

Another important aspect is the length of the rod. In this form of pike fishing, no precise casts are needed, but you want to cast as far as possible to cover as much water as possible. Hence, you want a slightly longer rod that both casts long, but also gives you the ability to lift a lot of line to set the hook at the end of a long cast.

If you want to fish jerkbait like in the movie, it can be beneficial to go down in length to make it easier to maneuver the bait and get a nice side-to-side action.

When fishing for pelagic pike, you can actually use your regular pike reel. Using a casting reel can be advantageous as it makes it easier to cast heavy baits, which you often do. A size 300 casting reel, or the 5000 size of a classic ambassadeur works great. If you are throwing really big baits of several hundred grams, it may be worth going up a size on the reel to 400 or 6000. Not because you need it to get the fish up, but because the heavier the bait, the more it wears on the gear.


Due to current circumstances, the reels used in the film may be hard to come by, but below we list alternatives that are just as good!

When fishing pelagically, a balance must be struck. This is because the thinner the line, the easier it is to get the bait down. But a thinner line also increases the risk of the line snapping off if you happen to get an overrun.