What is harder to catch a northern pike or a walleye?

Question

I have cought 11 northerns in about 3 or 4 months just fishing from shore. ive never tried going for walleye . just pike and bass. I think bass are the easiest game fish to catch. So i decided to go with pike. I hear waleys dont fight good. But i have had a few pike come in like logs. I think i would like to catch some walley though.

Answer 1

Walleye for sure. In northern minnesota every pothole and creek as well as most every lake has northern pike that jump on your hook just to look at it it seemes. Especially the smaller ones. Walleye are fairly common but not as easy to catch.

Answer 2

Definetly Northern Pike. With Walley there are really good days where as soon as you put your pole in the water, you catch a Walleye. but with Pike there arent any days like that. because pike aren't as dense as walleye. Pike fight WAY harder than walleye though. Although having a big walleye mounted, people will think your cooler for having that, than a big pike mount. So i think that you should fish for walleye sometimes, but stick with pike. pike are WAY funner to fish for.

For Walleye, im telling you, the best way to catch them is with a bottom bouncer and a spinner with a whole night crawler on using a crawler harness. A crawler harness is a line with two J hooks, then a treble hook on the end, all tied on the same line, and spaced about one-and a half inches apart. You put the worm on all three of the hooks, including one of the treble's hooks. Since Walleye very commonly nip the bait on the end, it will catch those sneaky bait stealers!

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Answer 3

the 1st actual northern pike i've got caught grow to be approximately 22 inches long. I wasn't watching for northerns and the fish grow to be a organic accident. whilst i ultimately landed it, i grow to be bowled over how small it grow to be. It have been given stamina. It have been given staying power. And it felt like a much bigger fish. That fish made me communicate approximately it for fairly a on an identical time as. the 1st walleye i've got caught grow to be approximately 20 inches long. i grow to be happy that I landed a "new" specie and it grow to be relaxing. yet in comparison to my first northern pike, that walleye gave me plenty much less woo's and @#$%!'s. I stay in Southern California now and that i don't get to work out walleyes and northern pikes anymore. Out of the two, I omit northern pikes extra advantageous than I omit walleyes. fairly, my vote is going to northern pikes.

Answer 4

Depends. I always thought pike were harder to catch because they aren't schooling and just big solitary predators and theres like 1 every 100 squ meters or whatever.



Walleye are schooling and theres a lot more. My walleye to pike catch ratio is probably like 10 walleye to 1 pike.

Answer 5

I fish at one of the best, if not the best, Walleye lake in the state of Kentucky, and I haven't caught one on either my Bass lures or live nightcrawlers/minnows. I guess I just don't know much about them, and where they stay around. I would call them a "hard" fish to catch.



Northern Pike? I don't know. I have none of them in any of the local lakes.