A pike fly fishing set

 I used to fly fish for pike in Ukraine, but never tried in Poland. I don't have appropriate gear.

In this year im trying to join the pike fly fishers team. If all our other fish like trout, grayling, chub, nase, barbel, ide, perch can be caught by using the same fly rod in range 4-6 wt, pike demands for very specific dedicated set. 

So, I eventually acquired all necessary components. 

Fly Rod - Traper Silence SW 9' 9wt.  

Reel - Vision Kust(XLV), size 7-8 , with spare spool

Fly lines:  

Rio Outbound Short intermediate

Rio Outbound Short Intermed/Sink 3

Vision Grand Daddy Intermed/Sink4

Leaders: 

Vision Ace 9' 18lb tapered leader

Vision Wireline 15lb wire tippet material

Vision stripping basket. I never used stripping basket before, but it's very useful for pike or saltwater fishing with streamers and shooting heads, especially if you wading, and use intermediate or sinking running line. Without basket, the fly line falls in the water and sinks, which creates a drag, shortening casting distance. 

Also, I have big fly box for pike streamers, which fits into the chest pocket on my fishing jacket. Made by Cliff (USA). it's the best fly box for big flies I ever used, it fits 20cm long streamers, but still pocketable.

To test all that gear, I chose Mosczanica commercial fishery. There's few ponds, stocked with trout, carp, amur and pike.  I made many runs of my streamers in the pond, until the twilight came.  No contact with fish. Pike was not in the biting mood today.  But I tested my new rod, and found it an excellent tool for casting heavy lines and big flies.