What Stays home?

Leaving soon for a week of big pike fishing in NWT. Gotta slim down for luggage restrictions. Whats Stays home?

the stuff in the lower right hand corner of the lower left hand box, you need the rest! good luck slimming that down anymore!!

Good info, that's why I had some duplicates. I prefer natural colors in clear water and chartreuse in stained. Don't know what I'm going to run into. Besides I got all the believers on e-bay for $6. The swim whizz were hand me downs, as with some rapalas. I also have a big box of spoons not pictured.

basics are all you need for pike.  for years i took all i was allowed to carry and only used 4 or 6 lures.  swim baits with jig head, very versitle lure can be fished deep or shallow.  spoons, i like dr. spoons, rapala, an ko wobbler in silver gold and copper, bring some colored prism tape to change the flash ex chartrues, orange, red etc.  buzzbaits white is a top producer for me with black second.  spinnerbaits afain white black or yellow.  some bucktail spinners.  floating minnow crank like a rapala 5" to 7" silver and gold.  these have produced 80% of my fish up to 44" long.  i take 2 or 3 rods and 3 or 4 reels.  i also take a fly rod and love to catch big gators on flies.  this can all fish in 2 plano trays and 1 box.  these fish are not fish too hard and basic presentations usually take fish with no problems.  however you will get times when things are slow and that when you slow down with jigs and a smaller bait.  the main forage in those lakes are cisco, whitefish (silver or white) and perch (yellow and gold) I've also got some on a jig with pike belly skin hooked to it.  fish will be shallow soaking up sun, at the mouth of any inlet, and necked down area, on the 1st drop off or any patch of weeds you can find.  this is not technical fishing, its the number of casts and moving till you find the right conditions.