Check out this pike.click here It was caught in Rainy River. Not in the BWCA, but not far away! Imagine pulling that into your canoe!

Oops. Try this. click here

Huh? Looks like Mr. Yuck

It's Mr. Yuck here too. Could you please resend the link ? Thanks - Izzy

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Woodpecker

It's from Snopes.com - that should tell ya something. lol

Funny, I get the pic when I click the link. Lets try this.

TGO will be dissappointed to hear that it was not caught on a bare hook and a leech. He was reeling in a 36" pike and this bruiser grabbed it. He netted them both. It's 44 pounds, 55 inches.

I should add that I originally got this from a guy I work with. His dad has a cabin in the area and knows the guy in the photo.

This photo has been around for quite a while and most people said it was caught in Holland. it has even been on this site.

Well the laugh's on me! I don't think the guy who sent me these was trying to pull my leg. Now his dad, on the other hand, must have been joshing him! When I first saw the pic, my first thought was "Europe" because pike grow bigger there. But then it doesn't look like a boat you'd have in Europe, or does it?

Yeah Marsonite you got duped by one of the more common internet hoax's. You aren't the first that picture has been on here before. Usually the picture comes with another picture of a pike grabbing another pike---that picture I think was stolen off of one of these BWCA sites and was of a medium sized pike biting a small one.

Other common hoax's are a picture of a deer being attacked by a mouintain lion in Iowa---too bad it was a mule deer and the trees are big Fir--I think--either way mule deer don't exist in Iowa and neither do forests like the pic was taken. Picture is from Colorado,

The siamese Pike--has one head and two bodies---one pike just slide down on the stringer by accident--looks like one fish instead of two.

The giant grizzly bear shot in Alaska--just a bigger than average Grizzly that never harmed anyone.

The giant sturgeon caught in the Rainy River or sometimes it is the St. Lawrence river.

They go on and on---pretty much any chain photos of game that are emailed to ya are fake now a days.

Tim

I've seen this photo quite a few times also. Sometimes it's accompanied by a photo a friend of mine took of a large northern taking a smaller northern his canoe partner had on on Agnes.

I went back through the fishing reports and found the post by Kanot that I think had this pic in it. Trouble is, the link and pics were deleted. Thinking back, I wasn't sure it was the same pic...maybe just a different angle.
My neighbor showed me a couple of pics that his friend at work said he took. I told him that I had already seen them on this site and that his friend was full of crap.
Always be suspicious of fish pics on the web (you can't trust fisherman!)

In my own defense, this guy at work ( a canadian) showed them to me--he got them in his email from his dad. He was convinced they were authentic--even printed up some paper copies. His dad has a retirement home on Rainy Lake. I should have gotten real suspicious when I was able to find the same pic posted elsewhere. I'll try to get to the bottom of it on Monday. I'd still like to know who and where the guy is. Even in Europe, that would be a newsworthy pike--someone knows the truth somewhere. Course it could be a doctored photo---but by the body shape, it's still a hog.

Here's the earliest post I could find about this pike on this site.
scroll down to the thecanoemans post.

http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=forum.thread&confId=1&forumId=14&threadId=26710

i had read once that the very photo in question was on the cover of "ESOX" magazine. it was from somewhere in europe. holland maybe....

Yup. Holland.

Here is one that I caught on crooked this spring..

You realize that no one will believe that now!?! lol

ktoivola,

Did you take any measurements on that gater?

Ha ha ...I know no one will believe it now....I guess at least I have pictures tho. Didn't measure it, but it did tip the scale at about 16.5 lbs. Caught it in an eddie pool on a jig and twister tail while fishing for walleye..It really looks big in the picture tho..

Let me guess, at the big current. That is where I caught my biggest northern, on a leech with #6 hook, no leader at all. Got lucky and hooked it right in the top jaw tip, solidly.

I fish there every trip a couple of times and there are monsters in there. We have had 3 pound bass get grabbed after we hook them and the bite radius on the middle of the fish on some is huge.

Yet purposely fishing for them in there hasn't really worked. Tried a number of things, some not legal (little fish, big hook in it) and nada. But occasionally hook a medium size fish, and wham, the fish is history.

Do you guys keep these or let them go?

let them go,....I actually caught another one about the same size on the trip. It decided to grab my sauger and not let go.