Pro-Cure Co.
offers an attractant for pike and musky:
According to producer, this attractant
“contains
chubs, minnows, panfish and perch, plus some
secret
ingredients”.
However, this attractant is the fake product because pikes (Esocidae) do
not respond to feeding odors (Devitsyna & Makyukina, 1977).
Pikes are attracted only by the conspecific sexual pheromones (Devisyna & Makyukina, 1977) as well as by the alarm cues deposited in the skin of cyprinid and some other prey fish (Wisenden & Thiel, 2001).
Pikes are attracted only by the conspecific sexual pheromones (Devisyna & Makyukina, 1977) as well as by the alarm cues deposited in the skin of cyprinid and some other prey fish (Wisenden & Thiel, 2001).
Basic References
Devitsyna G.V., Malyukina G.A. 1977. On the functional
organization of the olfactory organ in macro- and microsmatic fishes. Journal of Ichthyology 17, 493-502
WisendenB.D.,
Thiel T.A. 2001. Field verification of predator attraction to
minnow alarm substance. Journal
of Chemical Ecology 28,
417-422
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