33 pound 8 ounce Pike Caught In Metro

[JBMasterAngler]

Did anyone else see the 33.5 lb northern on the front page of the outdoor news? It was supposedly caught in northern washington county. Anyone happen to know the lake it came out of? I have my reservations as to whether a pike can get that big around here, unless he got it out of the croix. Either way, that thing was a BEAST!!!

[CrowRiverRat83]

That was a huge pike, and it was speared.

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[thedeadsea]

Just curious what the length/girth was on that brute?

[Walleye Guy]

45 x 28 is what it says in ON.

[thedeadsea]

45 x 28 is what it says in ON.

Thats why it looks short....cause it is so fat!

[catchphoto_filet]

ive pulled a 28 through the hole but a 33 is a total different breed all together! anything is possible I guess If we have no other info you almost have to assume it came from MN? but i agree doubtful! but than again a 33lb pike is slim to none anywhere you go

[Acemac]

got to be the river

[Whitey97]

I've got a friend that pulled up a 33lb from LOW

[gregg52]

from the background looks like a fairly good sized lake

spose it could be croped ???? i dunno

big fish for sure

[propster]

Might be the same fish, but the one in the Outdoor News showed a different guy. If they are one and the same, not sure which guy harpooned it. Square Lake would be my guess.

[Arcons]

The guy had gray hair in the Outdoor News photo.

[Arcons]

Awesome fish though!!! Both of em!!

[AuggieDawg11]

Might be the same fish, but the one in the Outdoor News showed a different guy. If they are one and the same, not sure which guy harpooned it. Square Lake would be my guess.

I was thinking the same thing. I think a pike could get pretty big gorging itself on all the trout it could eat! What a pig!

[waterbound]

This is the picture in Outdoor News...what a fish.

[JBMasterAngler]

Could also get very big in the croix gorging on mooneye, shad, suckers, etc, etc

That pike with the younger guy doesn't look like it was speared either. The outdoor news pic you can see a couple of the wounds.

However it was caught, or wherever it was caught, that is a fish of a live time no matter what!

[MN Greenheads]

The first pic has no fishouses on it and looks like a pretty big lake ????metro. Second pic looks like something from Square Lake. Each year a few really large Northerns are taken out of it.

[hunt4food]

If it did in fact come from a Washington County lake, my bet is that it came from Square Lake. There's some pigs in there. The pike get really fat like that from eating those oily trout!

[This Guy]

I spear Washington County and I have a feeling that fish came out of Square Lake. They have alot of big northerns

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[goblueM]

what an absolute pig of a fish, no matter where it was caught

intriguing it came from the metro area

[cjac]

Mythbusters in action.....

Click on the photo and read the "Properties".....it says Tobin. Maybe the guys name is Tobin, but I doubt it!

Makes a lot more sense to me thinking Tobin Lake and not Washington County. Pretty hard to get separation from anyone else in the photo background like that in the Metro.

[goblueM]

Mythbusters in action.....

Click on the photo and read the "Properties".....it says Tobin. Maybe the guys name is Tobin, but I doubt it!

Makes a lot more sense to me thinking Tobin Lake and not Washington County. Pretty hard to get separation from anyone else in the photo background like that in the Metro.

nice trick i take it that would be Tobin Lake in Sask. up in Canadia... makes a lot more sense for that first picture.

[skolfoppa]

My guess is Tobin Lake in Sask. Is that a maple leaf on the house door??

My second guess is Big Marine.

Skol.

[cjac]

Page 1 pike "busted", however the Outdoor News pike is a separate fish that I know nothing about other than the O. News photo and tag line......

Don't want to get myself in a firestrom of debate.....kinda scared as a muskie guy to open my yap about anything these days on there that's within ten posts of a connection to spearing.......