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somersetian
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- Jul 2, 2013
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I'm pretty much on a quest to catch Pike on the fly this summer. I've been fishing Laurel Hill Lake, the Quemahoning Res. Both hold Pike but talking to the spin guys I encounter I don't think people target them very much on those bodies of water. Everyone I talked to says they have caught them but always while bass fishing. Yesterday I skipped work and was on the Que about 1 right after the rain stopped, I went straight to a cove where I thought might be a good spot for Pike. There was underwater vegetation that had grown up over the past week and based on my reading about pike it looked like the prime spot. Water was about 8-10 ft deep and my streamers were only getting down maybe 4 ft. I have a 5' 7' and 10' sink tips I attach to my flyline but my 10' was with my lighter rod and gear at home. Should I be stripping those streamers right down past that vegetation or if there were Pike there would they have come out of hiding to chase my streamer? Besides that I fished the structure around the bank on the way back to the boat ramp, wind got to the point where I called it after 5 hrs.