Drop shotting with pike present

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Drop shotting with pike present

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I intend to have a go at drop shotting on a couple of little pits near me for some of the perch. One of these has pike, probably only jacks but pike nevertheless.

What sort of wire would you guys suggest as an uptrace that will still be subtle enough for the perch but will cope with the toothy critters.

Thanks in advance, Alex.
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I have a friend who is a 'dropper' who has a decent number of twenty plussers while targeting Perch
He uses Rio Wire Bite, Ive also used it in the heavier BS for Pike, its easy to tie and very flexible.
A Dutch friend who caught some seriously big Perch from his canals also used a nylon cover wire but he would fish 3" Shads.
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I tried incorporating wire, but found it clumsy and ineffective, so just stuck with 10lb mono. I should add that I hardly ever use dropshot lures bigger than 2", nor a hook larger than a size 4, so a bite-off wouldn't be particularly hazardous to a pike.

That said, in the process of catching thousands of perch on dropshot I've hooked just three pike. I landed two and got bitten off just once. I've hooked pike with more regularity on legered lobworms (and dropshotted lobworms!) so it shows that if you don't work your dropshot lure too vigorously it's very selective for catching perch.
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Thanks, I’m ok on one little water as there are no pike, a angling club carp puddle but I know it’s done a 3lber this year so must be more.

I’ll have a look at the wire for the rivers. Quite a few round me as I’m deep in east anglia and have a river within 2 mins of my house.
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