How to properly pull a pike out of the water. Fishing for pike and features of the “pike fisherman’s” equipment

Inflatable furniture is popular due to its convenience, ease of storage and transportation. But over time, holes appear on mattresses through which air escapes.

You can repair the damage yourself at home. Most often, damage is associated with inflating the mattress to its maximum. Manufacturers indicate in the instructions that this is prohibited, but many violate this rule.

1. Rubber adhesive made from natural rubber Desmokol.
2. Super Moment Crystal from Henkel.
3. "Uranus" for rubber boats.

Do not forget that the toxins contained in adhesives can harm humans and require careful and careful handling.

It is worth remembering that compositions for working with inflatable products are flammable and there should be no open sources of fire or sparks near you.

How to seal an Intex air mattress

You will need:

• scissors,
• glue,
• rubber patch,
• glue brush,
• sandpaper,
• detergent or shaving foam.

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You need to start by looking for damaged areas, it is not easy. Usually the holes are left by pets or children who like to jump around to their heart's content.

First of all, you should carefully examine the seams, joints of the surface and internal ribs.

1. Not in everyday conditions they use the method: omit inflated mattress into the water and see where the air bubbles come out.
2. At home, you can use soap or shaving foam, applying it to possible puncture sites; it will bubble in areas where air escapes.
3. If cuts cannot be found, water and washing liquid are poured into the mattress. When pressing on the mattress, soapy water will come out with a whistle from the damaged areas.
4. When damage is found, a patch or sticker is applied to the cut.
5. What glue to use to seal an air mattress, the craftsmen answer - buy a kit from Intex designed for repairing inflatable things, it includes both material for patches and glue.

If the cut is at the junction of seams, then treat the area with alcohol and then glue it according to the instructions.

But in order not to spoil appearance, glue can be applied from the inside.

1. The damaged area is pulled out through the valve hole and the patch is attached from the inside.
2. You will need a little glue - apply an even layer to the patch and press firmly to the surface. Leave the mattress to dry for about 12 hours.

Seal the mattress step by step

Another option for mattress reconstruction:

1. The damaged area is treated with sandpaper.
2. Then soak in alcohol.
3. After this, select the size of the patch, apply glue to it and attach it to the cut site. Instead of store-bought patches, you can use rubberized materials and polyurethane glue or a compound for working with rubber.
4. After gluing the patches, the mattress is left under pressure for 24 hours.
5. Next, they inflate and check how securely the patch and the cut were glued together.

If there are several damages, then they need to be closed in stages, waiting until the previous seam has completely set. If after inflation the air still comes out, it means that either there are still cuts or the inlet valve is not screwed in tightly.

If the problem is in the valve:

1. To check for problems with the valve hole, shaving foam is poured into the inflated mattress.
2. It will foam around the valve if it is damaged.
3. Then the valve is unscrewed and coated.
4. The end itself is ground and treated with silicone grease and returned to its place. If the valve is seriously damaged, you will have to contact a workshop.

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Where to seal an air mattress

If you have this question, then with large cuts, punctures, or loose seams, it is better to call and ask for professional help.

It is difficult to repair ruptured seams or damage to internal partitions on your own. Our technicians can come to your home and repair the damage on the spot. And if there is a small puncture or cut, you can fix the problem yourself.

There are companies and private craftsmen who specialize in repairing just such products. You need to call professionals if the seams and cuts are more than five cm, or if the internal partitions are torn off.

For pike fishing to be successful, you need very little - a little luck, a little skill and just a little bit of equipment and gear. Plus several seemingly well-known fishing techniques, tested by time and generations of fishermen. Let’s summarize them and highlight them in 5 points, according to which novice spinning anglers can be guaranteed to catch a “spotted” predator.

1. Find a guaranteed pike spot

This technique will allow you to always be with a catch. If you know how to properly look for a pike site, then consider that you have already done half the work. So, guaranteed pike parking. It happens when several factors come together.
— The presence of aquatic vegetation, it is better if the grass forms islands or tongues.
— Presence of current, reverse current and “lull”.
— Underwater obstacles (snags, underwater hills, submerged large objects).
— The presence of a relatively sharp drop from the shallows to depth.

Combine these factors and you will find a stand that is guaranteed to hold pike. Its size will depend on how deep the place you have found, and how interesting the current is nearby from the point of view of the passage of food fish. If the depth in this place is at least three to four meters and there is a large “fish” path nearby, then consider that you can count on a bite from a trophy predator in the parking lot you find.

2. Choose the right bait for your pike

Oscillator, for a place with a relative lack of current and shallow depth. Jig for a deep place with a possible channel current. for fishing found grass islands. Pinwheels for catching grass tongues. Weighted spinners for fishing ditches and deep channels. Jigs for fishing deep holes.

Choose bait suitable for specific fishing conditions. And you will fulfill requirement No. 2 for a guaranteed catch of pike. Many novice fishermen, having tried a couple or three baits and believing in them, try to use them everywhere and always. And sometimes they are unsuccessful. Do not fish with a “catching” lure. Fish with a fishing rod suitable for a particular fishing location. And don’t forget to select the color of the bait depending on the lighting conditions on the pond at the time of fishing.

3. Lead the bait correctly

Pike loves slow retrieve. A beginning spinner should remember this as “Our Father.” Slow, slow, even slower. And you are guaranteed to catch the “toothy one”. Guide the turntables on the verge of breaking the petal game. Drive the oscillators in stepwise winding mode with long pauses. Are you trolling? Drive the boat at a speed of no more than 2 km/hour. Slow, slow, even slower. You are fishing for pike.

4. Hook the pike correctly

Pike bites are very different. They are like being hit with a sledgehammer - “tear the rod out of your hands.” And there are like perch “bale” “bale”. It is imperative to hook the pike when it bites. After you have made the first hook, you should understand what size pike you have on your hook. If, then do another, control, sweep. This is trick #4 that will get your trophy in your boat.

5. Fish and retrieve the pike correctly

Don't hesitate if there is a "lace" on the hook. Don't force things if there is a crocodile on the hook. Each pike size has its own separate relationship. Take out the small ones quickly and forcefully. Take out large ones carefully, slowly and using operational adjustments during fishing. Prepare the landing net in advance. You already know that the landing net must be correct.

Get small “laces” quickly. Be careful with large specimens

Weigh your trophy, if it is large, take a photo and release it. If you come across “kiloshki” and “kopeck piece”, feel free to take them for cutlets. The smaller the representative of the pike tribe, the more damage it causes to the food base, “eating” the food fish. Therefore, let large specimens go back into the water, and let small ones go to your kitchen. And in terms of taste, small “palps” are much more interesting than large “logs”.

(c) Andrey Yantsev. 2013

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As for the impoverishment of reservoirs, electric fishing rods, gentlemen, factory owners, and fishermen who fish with nets, blocking spawning grounds, have a hand in this, and take much more than what they need for food. A fisherman with a spinning rod, a fishing rod, and even a net, as in Sweden and Finland, will not cause harm to nature if he follows his internal law and fishing standards.

However, pike are not necessarily kept alive only for expert filming. It’s just that if you’ve been fishing for several days, and the water in the reservoir is cool, or better yet cold, then in order to keep the fish fresh, the only way out is to keep it on the kukan.

But let’s get back to how to correctly pull a spoon out of a pike’s mouth. So, after a sharp blow to the fish’s head, the pike, as a rule, opens its mouth wide. Moreover, if it is only stunned, then this will allow you to get the spoon without much difficulty. Often the spoon itself falls out of the pike’s mouth. But at the same time, there is no need to try to put your hand into the pike’s mouth. No matter what, there is a possibility that the trap will still slam shut. Therefore, in order to calmly get the bait out of the mouth of a pike, there are several basic tools, and if you have them, the question will not arise: what to do if the pike has swallowed a spoon.

So, one of the useful tools in such cases is a surgical clamp. Although it is not one of the most commonly used tools for removing the spoon from the mouth of a pike, nevertheless, many use it, especially when fishing large pike. In fact, this is an analogue of an extractor, only not the more common fork one, but in the likeness of special pike narrow-nose pliers. Only the clip is thinner and more elegant. Originally intended for smaller pike.

I admit, although I am ashamed that I still have an extractor from a fork of a bush in my bag with the girders. Dried and strong as iron, soaked in pike mucus, it became a talisman for me. In fact, if necessary, such an extractor can be broken out or cut out of the coastal bush if a real metal fork extractor is not at hand. Such an extractor, of course, cannot serve as an example of how to correctly pull a spoon out of a pike’s mouth, but if there is a forced need and you don’t want to risk your hand, then such an improvised tool of biological origin will do.

Now another very important tool, probably the most important one, is the yawner. You really can’t do without it if you are not going to use the “over the head” technique, and after catching a pike you will need a photo session and a touching ceremony to release the fish into the water or you will need to keep it on a kukan. You can only open the pike's mouth to pull out the lure with the help of a gaper. Moreover, I have such a yawn from my father that when I open the pike’s mouth, I’m afraid that I myself might be pinned by these powerful levers. If the yawner moves to the side and somehow falls off the pike’s jaws, then it’s better to immediately hide your head. There is such a force in the spring there. This speaks volumes about what kind of pike there were at that time. However, post-war newspapers also wrote about thirty-kilogram pikes in some of our lakes.

How to act and what to do if a pike swallows a spoon? Everything is simple here. The pike's mouth is carefully opened with a gaper, fixing it in the upper and lower jaws. Then, holding the fish with a gaper, carefully unhook the tee of the spoon using a fork or other extractor, moving it inside the fish. All that remains is to pull out the freed bait. Similar operations can be done using various narrow pliers and the already mentioned surgical clamp instead of a traditional fork extractor. Additionally, any strong fork of a branch can also be used as an extractor.

How to get the spoon out from under the gill cover

In addition to the common and traditional method of removing a spoon from a pike's mouth, there is another method. Here the principle of penetration into the pike’s mouth under its gill cover is used. This method can be adopted in cases where there is not one at hand the right tool, which were mentioned above, that is, in conditions close to primitive ones. It happens like that. To do this, the pike is taken by the so-called scruff, that is, behind the head. Of course, you have to hold it tightly. Pike is a strong fish and, in addition, is covered with protective mucus. The thumb of the hand holding the fish pushes back the gill cover. From this back side, you can usually clearly see the tee of the spoon and how it gets caught in the pike’s mouth, especially if it swallowed the bait quite deeply. Upon initial inspection, it becomes clear which side the spinner is on. If it is not on the side of the hand holding the pike, then you need to intercept the fish with your other hand and repeat the operation when thumb opens the operculum. With the other hand, you need to carefully unhook the stings of the tees, without touching the gill plates, which can also easily cause injury. After this, when the spoon is unhooked, you need to open the pike’s mouth. Although this is not very easy to do without a yawner, it is nevertheless possible with the help of improvised objects in the form of sticks. Then the fish, shaking, is lowered upside down. The spoon should fall out with a slight pull on the leash or under own weight. There should be no sharp jerks or strong tension on the fishing line and leash, otherwise everything will repeat from the beginning, when the tee again digs into the pike’s mouth.

It cannot be said that this method of removing a spoon from a pike’s mouth is better than the traditional one, but in some cases it is quite applicable, especially if you remember how wide the gill covers open and how much free space there is, under the gill covers, for viewing and removing the spoon, compared to the mouth pike.

Treatment of wounds from pike teeth

Although fishermen are simple people and pay little attention to such trifles as wounds from perch thorns and even pike teeth, often these wounds can be quite extensive. And if you remember that pikes don’t clean their teeth and there are a lot of different bacteria on their teeth, then untreated wounds can cause ulcers to develop, which heal differently for everyone. It happens that they turn into prolonged suppuration and inflammation, especially if the hand is wet and not treated with anything. It is advisable to have iodine, brilliant green, and hydrogen peroxide, which is simply called hydrogen peroxide, in your first aid kit. All these antiseptics disinfect wounds, and hydrogen peroxide can stop suppuration. Treated wounds should be covered with adhesive tape.

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Before you start fishing for pike, it is important to prepare properly. To do this, you just need to place the necessary accessories in the vein as conveniently as possible for yourself. Pike fishing requires special attention and skill, and this especially applies to fishing.

After the pike bites, you will be able to feel quite strong jerks. Pike is distinguished by strength, sharpness and tenacity, and this is especially true for large specimens of the so-called deep-sea pike. After the predator grabs the bait offered to her, she immediately begins to make attempts to save herself. The very first thing she tries to do is go to the maximum permissible depth, and our task is to prevent her from doing this. Many fishermen, especially beginners, do not know how to properly fish for pike and make a number of unforgivable mistakes, as a result of which the pike comes off the hook. Therefore, the most important thing when fishing is to constantly monitor the caught predator and try to bring it to a place convenient for you. Having enough space, you can simply constantly hold the spinning rod in a vertical position, preventing the pike from swimming far, much less deeply. In the event that the pike still manages to swim to the depths or to a heavily stuck place, there is no point in trying to pull it out, since in the end you will simply break your tackle and lose your trophy. In this situation, you can emerge victorious, the main thing is to be patient and wait until the pike comes out into the open water, the main thing is to keep the line taut all the time.

If you managed to lift the pike into the upper layers of the water, it is advisable to slightly release the clutch, which will help soften all the strong jerks of the pike. You should not try to pull out a caught pike as quickly as possible, because as a result, the spoon may simply jump out of the mouth of the caught predator. How to fish out a pike if it has its mouth wide open and begins to shake its head from side to side? In this situation, there is no need to panic; you need to stop reeling in the fishing line and at the same time loosen it slightly, so that it will not be able to free itself from the hook. After this attempt has not been successful for her, she will begin to rush around violently and make attempts to go down or to the side. If she goes to the side where there are no snags, then you can let her swim a little, but if she starts to swim towards the snags, then you need to try to stop her or turn her in the other direction.

After you have been able to bring the caught pike to the boat, you can pull it out of the water either by hand or by grabbing it, but this is if the pike is not very large. Big pike It is best to pull it out of the water using a hook. If there is no hook, then you need to bring the pike to the boat and try to put your hand on its head in the eye area, squeeze it tightly and only then pull it into the boat.

Today I watched a video of how unfortunate fishermen hooked a pike weighing 10 kg on a spinning rod. They brought her to the boat and hit her on the head with an oar countless times. Then they tried to get her into the boat by the fishing line. And then the pike jumped on the cameraman in the boat.

In general, laughter and sin. After laughing, I decided to write this post to at least tell you a little about what you can do when fishing for a large pike and what not.

How to catch a large pike

First of all, after any pike bites, you must make a hook. The degree of “swing” of the hook depends on the structure of your rod. The stiffer your rod is, the shorter the hook can be made. If you have a “noodle” rod, a slow or semi-parabolic action, the hook should be done “from the heart”. Otherwise, you will not be able to penetrate the hard mouth of the pike. For the time being, you will not know this. But when the pike lands right at your feet, then you’ll understand. Moreover, if the pike constantly leaves you during fishing, then something is wrong with the tackle. You need to either sharpen the hooks of your lures, or change the rod structure - select a stiffer blank for pike.

After you have made the hook, if you feel that there is a decent-sized trophy at the other end of the line, you should make a control hook. This means that after the main hook, which you usually do reflexively, you must consciously hook the pike one or two times in a sweeping manner. This is done in order to guarantee cutting through the mouth of a large or trophy specimen. Don't be afraid that this way you will tear the pike's mouth and it will leave. The pike is not a bream or an asp, its mouth is powerful and bony. If it doesn’t break during the control hooking, it means it won’t get away during the fishing process. Well, if the pike broke during the control hooking, it means that it was weakly caught and then would have gone off right next to the boat. Which is much more offensive, because you would have already seen the size of the trophy and realized that you had missed a pike that you had never caught in your life.

Fishing for large pike must be done carefully. Do not give it any slack, but also do not “greyhound”, do not pull the pike with a “drill”. Large fish do not forgive such carelessness. But don’t let her get bored either, constantly put pressure on her, constantly keep her “on a leash.” Let her “work” all the time, let her get tired. Wait until the pike gets tired, then bring it to the boat.

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How to get a large pike out of the water

You can get a large pike with your hands, or you can use it. Do not use a hook to remove large pike from the water. It’s good to use a hook in a hole, or to get fish like catfish. And when lifting a good pike, the hook is more of a hindrance than a help.

Under no circumstances should you reach a large pike by the eyes. This is very bad form, which indicates that the large pike was caught by “loshars” - newbies in fishing. This time. Secondly, you will easily cut your fingers after the pike's brow ridges break when you hold it by the eyes and lift the boat.

Hold the pike behind the head with one or two hands and gently but quickly pull it out of the water and throw it into the boat.

How to deal with a large pike in a boat

In the boat, do not let go of the pike and do not give it freedom. Otherwise, she will arrange such a “revolution” for you there that you will then have to calm her down for a long time.
If you decide to release the pike back, hold it firmly and gently behind your head. Take photos, weigh and release. Don't hesitate. Remember that every second of the pike in the air is an additional injury for it.

If you decide to take the pike with you, for frying or for cutlets, euthanize it. For small pike, the backbone is broken just behind the head. With a large pike, such a trick will not work. Take a knife and place its tip on the ridge of the pike just behind the head. With a strong blow Drive the tip along the shank of the knife into the backbone of the pike. The knife will cut her spinal cord, entering between the vertebrae. The pike will calm down quickly and will not bother you much.
Do not place large live pike in a bag or barrel. Pike live in mucus for quite a long time. Firstly, it will beat, make noise and disturb you in every possible way. And secondly, this is a rather painful death. Show respect to the big fish - it gave you pleasure in the process of catching it.

(c) Andrey Yantsev. 2013.

PS. Here's a YouTube video of a pike being hit with an oar in an attempt to stun it. Please NEVER DO THIS!!!