Pike are preditors eat fish not tinned meat. A group of us was once fishing in the lake district for pike we sent a non fishing mate back into Keswick for new bait and asked him to get fish e.g raw herring / mackerel gave him £20. He ignored that and used his intiative went to the chippy rather tham fishmonger and came back with £20 worth of battered cod wrappen in newspaper. He was not popular on the 100 mile drive back home.
Pike will eat anything if they can get a whiff of it in the water,although I do recommend Sand eels as dead bait,most efficient,also imitation frogs are a good job.
