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The Packernut and I decided to take one more shot at the pike for 2015. We got a great day of weather, mid 30's and no wind. Water temp at the first spot was 40 degrees.
I started the day by putting the biggest fish of the day in the boat, ten minutes after our first cast. It was a nice fat 7 pounder that took a liking to a new glide bait I got in the mail last week. We put 4 fish in the boat in the first 45 minutes, then got blanked the rest of the day.
I wasn't expecting big numbers so 2 fish each was a good day for this late in the season. This trip caps of a great year of pike fishing for both of us, where we both got our new personal best pike and I finished the year with 269 pike total. By far the most I have put in the boat in a single season since I have been counting.
Mike, thanks for coming along and sticking out a few very cold days of fishing. It was a good end to a great season. I'm already counting the days till warm water spring fishing.
Hopefully My Raiders can top your Packers tomorrow and make for a great weekend. :)

lonnie197272

12/19/2015 8:10:00 PM

Good job Mark, sounds like you had better weather than us and results. Although if I had fished more than playing with the new electronics it might have been a better outing.

Reel Priorities

12/19/2015 8:54:00 PM

Beautiful fish, Mark. Sounds like this was quite the year for you -- nice work with the PR!

AJ's Dad

12/20/2015 7:54:00 AM

Thanks Ryan. Ya I released my new personal best back in August when I put a 45 1/2"er back in the water and watched her swim away as she gave me quite a soaking with one swipe of her tail. After that one swam off, the friend I had fishing with me that day said, "Ya good luck ever catching one that big again". You can imagine what he said when I called him up after my very next trip and sent him photos of another fish that was exactly the same length and girth. Now I just have to decide who I will have do the mount for me and which fish photos to send for the reproduction. It truly was a blessed year for me. Like I told you a while back. If you can ever make it over hear when they're active, let me know and I'll get you out there.

Lonnie, maybe you can bring that new boat up here in the spring and we'll get some pike slime on it for ya!

cobrar543

12/21/2015 10:24:00 AM

any Ice coming in to the bays yet?

AJ's Dad

12/21/2015 5:23:00 PM

I saw some floating ice in the maain lake a couple weekends back when the temp was in the teens. It was south of Harrison but I haven't seen any other than that.

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