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Northern pike: twelve scenarios, run through the model
Ambush predator built for one explosive lunge. Wants a big profile and a lot of displacement.
- Optimum
- 18 °C
- Feeds between
- 1–26 °C
- Prey window
- 100–350 mm
- Wants wobble
- 5–10
- Reaction distance
- 3.5 m
- Aggression
- 0.95
- Scenarios
- 12
- Something eaten in
- 2 / 12
The scenario grid
Temperature bands sit on this species' own curve: cold is 6 °C, near optimum is 18 °C, too warm is 23 °C. Each cell links to the full ranking and names the top lure, or how far the best one got if nothing was eaten.
| Temperature | clear · neutral fish | clear · post-front | muddy · neutral fish | muddy · post-front |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold water6 °C | Best: pike baitrefused, nothing eaten | Best: pike baitrefused, nothing eaten | Best: wakebaitrefused, nothing eaten | Best: deep diverfollowed, nothing eaten |
| Near optimum18 °C | Pike bait3 of 11 eaten | Best: pike baitrefused, nothing eaten | Best: wakebaitrefused, nothing eaten | Best: deep diverrefused, nothing eaten |
| Too warm23 °C | Pike bait2 of 11 eaten | Best: pike baitrefused, nothing eaten | Best: deep diverrefused, nothing eaten | Best: deep diverrefused, nothing eaten |
Which archetypes the model favours for northern pike
Across all twelve scenarios, these are the archetypes that got eaten at least once.
Other species
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Species values are working assumptions, not calibrated field measurements. See where this model is wrong.