8-9wt, more depends on the flies you’re throwing than the fish. It’s a good excuse to pick up a decent saltwater in whichever weight you choose.
A floating bass fly line will probably do you. I’ve packed a sink tip before but never really needed it.
Tie your own leaders, joe cermele has some good “recipes”. I think I went 2ft of 40lb to 3 feet of 20lb to a foot of tieable wire that terminated in a loop with a snap. After you finish your knots, hit them with some super glue for good measure.
You can spend $800000 on pike flies or you can get some buck tail, bunny strips and feathers and make your own monstrosities that catch fish. I like deceivers, double deceivers and pike bunnies, but depending on your ability to spin deer hair some poppers or dahlberg divers would be cool.
The pike in my profile pic was on an 8wt with that leader setup and a shitty pike bunny I threw together.
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