Spearing Decoys

[PITBULL]

What do you use for spearing decoys? Artificial or Live? I have been using live decoys since I started spearing. mostly suckers, sometimes I have used a perch that I caught. I just bought a artificial at GM, I thought I might try.

just wondering what you use, If a artificial what colors do you use and have the most success with.

[Robert Hoover]

I use both live and artificial.I carve my own.

[Sailor]

I use live suckers and perch, wooden decoys and teasers.
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[WALLEYE MIKE]

I use a perch I caught or a wooded decoy,

[Cpt.Chaos]

We have always used live suckers, 7-8" preferrably. When we put them on the decoy pins, I would always make them hang just a little bit either head down or tail down slighlty, this way they struggle to keep themselves level. Sometimes I even would cut a pec fin a bit to make them give off different vibrations when they swim. I have had "surgically altered decoys be the sole focus of many pike that would swim into our holes. We always used 2 decoys, it takes a little to keep them untangled, but we always seem to get a bunch of pike.

[Sailor]

We have always used live suckers, 7-8" preferrably. When we put them on the decoy pins, I would always make them hang just a little bit either head down or tail down slighlty, this way they struggle to keep themselves level. Sometimes I even would cut a pec fin a bit to make them give off different vibrations when they swim. I have had "surgically altered decoys be the sole focus of many pike that would swim into our holes. We always used 2 decoys, it takes a little to keep them untangled, but we always seem to get a bunch of pike.

The way I use two live decoys is to put them on the same line . A safety-pin
(or as you call them "decoy pin) on the bottom with a 1/2 oz. slip sinker above it and another safety-pin about a foot above it. That way they they will very seldom get tangled. I prefer Perch to suckers ( as do the Pike) as I use them for "watch dogs" to tell me if a pike is circling the wooden decoy.
The Perch are much more skitzy than suckers when a pike is around.

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