I have been told by a lot of people that I'm what you would call an "Outside the tackle box thinker". I have wanted to catch a Pike on a fly for a long time, but I didn't have a fly rod heavy enough, and I suck at fly fishing so. Check out this homemade weighted Pike/Muskie fly I designed. That I fish on my baitcasting rod. It's made from a wine bottle cork I shaped, with a piece of pencil lead in the bottom for weight, a big jig hook with a stinger treble hook attached to it, and a lot of flashaboo. I cut the cork halfway in, so the jig hook would fit inside it, and glued that in place with superglue. Then I drilled a 3/16 hole in the back of the cork at the bottom and put in about a 1/2" long piece of 1/4 pencil lead, and glued it in place. It weighs about 1oz. so it casts great, but with the cork and weight it sinks very slowly at about 4 in. per second. My fishing partner told me when I got it out of my tackle box, I would NEVER catch anything on that Psychedelic Barbie Doll wig. On my second cast with it, I caught this fish! You can see the fly in its mouth still.