On the Double! - The Coming Out.....

Well, to be honest, we thought we would get some not very flattering reactions regarding the last topic about the double hook-up with the multiple-streamer rig. But what do you know: not a single one, just people who believed us straight away. Which also may not be that flattering, because apparantely we are considered to be that greedy when it comes to catching pike....

Anyway, there was a double hook-up, but it involved two persons and two rods. In the photo of Hajé playing the two pike, the 'pike-suggestion' to the left was photoshopped (it was a pike caught before the double hook-up), and the two-streamer rig was just created to make things a bit more believable. We thought the suggestion of a 20-meter cast with a rig like that and the two pike playing each other would be enough over the top to raise an eyebrow or two, but obviously not.

And indeed, who's to say it isn't possible to throw a rig like that over 20 meters, and maybe it turns out it doesn't tangle all the time? The only thing we really doubt is that a pike would charge the other streamer when confronted with (and probably lured by) the already caught pike. We suppose it would either be just curious and stay at a comfortable distance, or else it would consider the other pike as an unexpected but welcome prey and go for it.

Either way, we wouldn't bother with multiple rigs in the first place. They're no doubt terribly awkward to cast and fish, and since (especially) fly fishing for pike has much more to do with the fun of catching a pike in a specific way than just with the amount of pike caught, we can't see why you should want to use such rigs in the first place. But then again, who's to say this isn't just a sneaky way to confuse our competition with a moral dilemma which might want them to refrain from using multiple rigs, so that in the end we will be the only ones using them at the tournament and take gold?