Top 5 Pike Lures for Monster Northerns in Canada

Trophy Northern PikeHave you ever been on a local or fly-in fishing trip and looked in your tackle box at the end of the adventure – wondering why you have 20 pounds or so of unused pike lures?

This comes into play often, especially when targeting trophy northern pike at remote and exclusive destinations like North Knife Lake Lodge. Like anything else in life, pike fishing follows the 80/20 rule. The top 20 percent of your lures will catch 80 percent of the trophy pike you’re looking for.

The majority of our customers enjoy above average success rates with North Knife Lake’s  extremely healthy population of monster northerns, but they soon realize that it takes only a few choice lures to entice and connect with one of these heart-stopping predators.

Our "Top 5 Pike Lures" will increase your successful encounters and positively lighten your tackle box. So here it is in no particular order.

Top 5 Northern Pike Fishing Lures 

  • 1. Mepps Musky Killer (silver/white, gold/black, gold/grey) 
  • 2. Mepps Aglia Dressed (silver/white, gold/black, gold/grey)
  • 3. Mepps Syclops (hot orange, gold, silver)
  • 4. J-mac Weedless Jig with 5 to 6-inch Plastic Sassy Shad Tail (white, black, blue)
  • 5. Johnson Silver Minnow tipped with 4-inch Double Tail (gold, silver/white and black tails)

Honorable Mention!!

6-inch Slug-Go (black, grey, bubble gum)

 Slug-go for Pike

Mepps Musky Killer a sure bet lure for trophy Northern Pike

Mepps Musky Killer - An excellent lure for trophy northern pike!

What’s your favorite northern pike lure? What did you catch your largest trophy northern on? The Mepps Musky Killer is a sure bet when fishing for trophy northern pike – the true Master Anglers – those big, honking monsters with long sharp teeth and cold steely eyes – the ones that scare you.

Whatever your favorite pike lure is, you’ll want to make sure you have it in good supply in your tackle box in preparation for that glorious first spring cast…  just in case…Wham! You hook a Master Angler northern as soon as your lure hits the water and horror of horrors -  the monster Esox catches you by surprise and steals away with your favorite lure…never to be seen again.

Hey, it happens to the best of us.

We’ll have a variety of favorite pike fishing lures of all colors and sizes in our tackle box this spring, and doubles of most, starting with one of the best northern pike lures of all time – the Mepps Musky Killer #5 with bucktail, which has probably hauled in more trophy pike than any other artificial pike lure.

Ideal for use in shallow water and over weed beds, the spinner blade on the Mepps Musky Killer activates even on the slowest retrieve but has excellent action at all speeds. One favorite cast-retrieval method that can result in some fast pike action on warm sunny days is to cast the Musky Killer towards that perfect spot along the shore, jerk it once as soon as it hits the water to make the blade flash, let it sink a few inches before reeling and bam! That big pike strikes on the first crank!

Mepps Musky Killers come in wide variety of styles and colors with and without bucktails. We like the big bucktails best for monster Master Angler northern pike. Musky Killers aren’t always easy to find in the spring, as the stores either don’t have them in stock or the pike fisherman have already grabbed them all. In that case you can always check out pike fishing lures on eBay, where you can find some great deals!

What’s your favorite pike fishing lure? Leave a comment, tell us a story, and let us know. We would love to hear from you!