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Heading up to Cranberry and Dog lake next week, any tips on where to look for late season pike. Also wood like to find some perch. Any tips would be appreciated, it's my buddies first trip up there and would like to set him up with a nice gator!!!!!!!!

Thanks,
Dave

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I've never been there before but the water in this area is just starting to reach summer temps and the larger pike will hang near areas with deeper water. The weedbeds are just starting to fill out so I would definitely try areas with recent weed growth. My first lure to try for pike is a white spinnerbait... and move on from there. Good Luck, and add to the link above with any results... I might make it to those lakes someday

I was fishing on Sunday and I caught a couple pike on the shallow side of a drop off, at the side of a point in about 3 feet of water that is pretty weedy in some parts.

I was using top water lures. One was on a Bleeding Zara Spook and the other was on a Storm Chug Bug. They weren't very big... maybe 30inches long.

All last season I had a lot of success with pike on my Chug Bug. They still were small guys but it was still fun to catch. When the big ones don't bite i just went to my top water lures in shallow water and I found little guys.

Fish Dog Lake if you must but if you want decent pike action in this neck of the woods head about 20 minutes south. Take Joyceville Rd off Hwy 15 follow to Hwy 2. Turn east on 2 for a mile or so and you'll see Grass Creek park on the St Lawrence. Launch there in the bay (good ramp) and head out into the main river. Find weedbeds in 10-15 feet of water with deeper water nearby and fish with preferably a bucktail jig along the edges or a #4 Mepps above the weeds in shallower water. I've had the best pike fishing in many many years this season on the St Lawrence with average days 20+ fish.

Forget about lures with multiple treble hooks. They are more nuisance with pike than necessary and make catch and release messy.

ganman wrote: Forget about lures with multiple treble hooks. They are more nuisance with pike than necessary and make catch and release messy.

I've been thinking about making my own trolling spoons and if I did I would probably go with the single hook over the treble hooks. It would help to make them much more weedless as well.

I'm a big spinner bait fan and always found the single hook considerably less traumatic on the fish as well, much easier to remove without damage even when swallowed very deeply by the fish then the treble hooks.