passaic river pike on live bait

[tycomps]

great response guys, thanks. what I was considering was lip rigging live minnows (rather than sunny's to avoid fin spine damage to the pike) and casting them to holes to locate fish. I'd use circle hooks to avoid gut hooking at all costs and if the unfortunate did occur I'm prepared with a modified "gentle" jaw spreader and 12" forceps.

[Skunk City]

I did well with live bait early in the season, then switched over to lures once things woke up a bit. Like what was said above, the bigger the better.

[NorthJerzyG]

+1 on biggger being better. Even at that, the few pike I have caught on live, have all been average to below average in size. Even got one on a "bigger than a large shiner" creek chubb and it was only 20ish inches.