if your lookin for big bruiser pike nows the time to get out and find em cause its right about prespawn/spawn season depending on how cold the water has been in your area but generally once the water temp hits about 40 its gator spawn time, hit em hard now with big dead baits (perch,large shiners, ect) or slow moving artificials like suspending jerkbaits and magnum size superflukes cause nows when they are fatening up in prep for sexy time then you wont be catching any gators for a good month or so while they actively begin staging and spawning and after spawn its usually only the males that tend to hang around the spawning grounds for an extended time period as they wait for the much larger females to go elsewhere looking for food rather than chowing on their mates so im talkin relatively little guys like in the 10lb tops range will be leftover once big momma go's back out to deeper water .look for shallow mud flats with vegetation and or kind of rocky bottoms, when i say shallow i mean waste height at the max (generally) cause alot of times pike this time of year can be seen in ankle deep water with their hump backs sticking out in open air, knee deep water with a muddy weedbed is prime real estate. good luck
