Looking forward to my annual trip, found a bay that I have been able to catch a couple large pike the last two years. Got a 42" in 2018 and this 48" in 2019. Caught two others over 40" last year as well.

Congrats. That is a Beauty.

Turned your picture for ya! Nice pike! Love catching monster pike!

Wow that is a monster, nice catch!

Awesome! I bet that was a good battle.

What a huge fish. Can you explain the rod/reel/line/lure?

My first thought was that the small child holding that pike has a beard! How odd...

Seriously huge. Well done!

I've never caught any pike nearly that size! What a monster!

Ambushunter,

I've caught quite a few big pike, but never one the size of that beast you are holding up! That is really an awesome looking pike. Keep going back to your bay. I've found that spots that produce big pike tend to produce big pike year after year.

Dave

Wow...that is a big fish. Never caught anything like that in canoe country. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Great catch. What tackle rod, reel, line, lure did you use?
Anthony

Very nice!

T

Truly an amazing fish. Should be just a lil bigger this year for ya.

QueticoMike: "
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Nice Northern. And Happy Birthday!

Sweet!

QueticoMike: "
Turned your picture for ya! Nice pike! Love catching monster pike!"

I thought the fish was so long, it had to be shown in Landscape vs. Portrait. :)

Dandy pike.

Thanks everyone, my PB from the boundary waters was in 2000, managed a 52"er. This one was caught on light tackle. I only use 8lb floro up there, not sure what rod it was caught on but was either a glomis 7'MH or a dobyns 7'M. paired with a daiwa reel. I do run a 30lb steel leader as well a lot of the times. I caught this pike on a 3" curly tail grub with a chatter bait style jig head. He must have been real hungry. I caught the 42" twice last year about 30 mins apart. I know it was the same because of a wound it had by its tail.

Takes a while to wear them down on light tackle and I usually go to shore to land if possible.

Ambushunter: "Thanks everyone, my PB from the boundary waters was in 2000, managed a 52"er. This one was caught on light tackle. I only use 8lb floro up there, not sure what rod it was caught on but was either a glomis 7'MH or a dobyns 7'M. paired with a daiwa reel. I do run a 30lb steel leader as well a lot of the times. I caught this pike on a 3" curly tail grub with a chatter bait style jig head. He must have been real hungry. I caught the 42" twice last year about 30 mins apart. I know it was the same because of a wound it had by its tail.


Takes a while to wear them down on light tackle and I usually go to shore to land if possible. "

Man, would I love to tangle with one of those! A 30+ pounder would be pretty amazing on light tackle. I know someone who caught a 50" 29.5# pike in Quetico a couple years ago but he was using pretty heavy tackle and targeting big pike specifically.

Would also love to tangle with a Monster. Was fishing on Basswood,
my Wife saw a Northern that was coming after her leach. By what she
explained to me. We call that fish. JAWS. I know there big'ns out there.

My wife says you are holding the fish forward to make it appear bigger. She says the true length of the fish is its shadow because it won't grow no matter how far you hold the fish forward because the sun is so far away. She says you would have to be 8 feet tall for the distance from the top of your t-shirt to your knee to be 48 inches. I have never heard of such a thing.

To the last post. You refered to your wife as she says 3 times. What ever.... that is one big jazz pike......definitely would not go skinny dipping if I knew that thing was in there....

fishslayer: "...She says the true length of the fish is its shadow because it won't grow no matter how far you hold the fish forward because the sun is so far away...."

That's a great piece of information. Smart gal, your wife.

I get 42" from my t-shirt line to just below my knee. I am 6'2".

fishslayer: "My wife says you are holding the fish forward to make it appear bigger. She says the true length of the fish is its shadow because it won't grow no matter how far you hold the fish forward because the sun is so far away. She says you would have to be 8 feet tall for the distance from the top of your t-shirt to your knee to be 48 inches. I have never heard of such a thing."

Hahaha! I'm not a shadow expert. But that is a very nice pike!!!