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Archerysniper

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Today I was able to sneak out of work at 11 so I was going to run out to my shack and be there by around 12:30. On the hour drive home I called my buddy that was out spearing close to my shack and see how it was going and the fish were moving. As we talked he told me just too come sit with him. Because I had not been in mine and needed to reopen the hole and his was nice and warm ready to spear it wasn't a hard sell for me.

We sat there for a couple hours watching the crappies,sunnies and perch without seeing a pike so I decided to run to the truck and grab a couple of my goofy swimming little decoys since the red and white wasn't working. The first one I handed him was the Dorkfish original yellow and orange,I said don't laugh at hoe goofy it looks or swims the pike love it.

He dropped it down and giggled at how it worked and within 2 minutes I looked over under his foot and all I could do was say big fish,big fish,big fish get ready it's under your foot coming into the decoy. He was able to get his spear right as it was coming in under his foot. I watched him line up the spear and throw as the fish was turning in the hole. As soon as he let the spear go it went slow motion I could see it flying perfectly behind the head and then the rope catch his hand or sleeve which turned the spear and it sailed harmlessly over it's head. Must have been pike fever because this isn't the first big one he has missed.

The fish takes off and stirs up the sand but clears up before he can get the spear back up the hole. He sets the spear down and jigged the decoy again mad at himself for missing and shaken up a bit from the big fish. The decoy has just settled down from him jigging it and I look over and right under his foot comes that huge head looking at that little Dorkfish again. I start stuttering big fish again and he grabbed his spear I try handing him my heavy spear Gordie made me and he say's,you take it I missed my shot. As it came in the second time it turned again,I;m not sure if it was going to leave or square up better with the decoy and I wasn't going to let it leave.

As I threw I watched the spear buried all the way to the back with the center tine centered on the fish however I thought it was about mid section of the fish. As I grabbed the line all I could feel was the fish throwing the spear around and after loosing a big one last winter I just dropped it to the bottom and let it sit. We went out side for a break and see how the neighbor was doing and his little 4 or 5 year old daughter has too run out and show us her 6.5# that she took all on her own,it was priceless seeing her smile and during pictures her dad pulls out the decoy she used and I could see it was a Laska Nord which was awesome.

So I'm still nervouse about pulling the fish up but the girls dad says look at where you hit it,your center tine is buried and you outside tines are stuck into the outside of the fish right behind the head. I guessed it was around 12 pounds my buddy guessed 13 and the neighbor guessed 12 pounds.

After I got it out of the hole and on the ice we knew it was bigger and my buddy threw the tape he had on it and said it wasn't big enough. I thought he had a 3 foot tape but as I looked down it was over the 40 inch mark,that's when I knew I would have another taxidermy bill for christmas.

All said and done it was a long skinny fish weighing in at 15.9 pounds and 40-3/4 inches long.

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And a picture of the Pike paying me back. As we finished pictures it closed its mouth on my jacket pocket flap and I should of known better but I tried to pry it's mouth open with my finger. Now I'm holding the fish stuck too my jacket with the finger on my other hand stuck in it's mouth. Chinese finger traps are easier too get out of. This took a second guy with a knife to get me undone from it.

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I would like too also thank my sponsors wink

Thank you for the awesome spear Gordie and all the luck you put into,throw it 4 times and brought up 4 fish.

And Dorkfish,even though some might laugh at how some of your decoys look or swim they are the ones with the most teeth marks on them.

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It was awesome,I was excited just watching you get the pike fever when it came in. I think it was actually 100 times better sitting in the house and having someone else witness whats happening with you. I got more of a rush from that then just about any whitetail I have ever let a arrow fly at.

Thank you for convincing me to sit with you and the chance to throw,just remember I did try giving you my spear when it came back in shocked

Hopefully we can get the kid's and wives out together this weekend and over Christmas break for some family day's on the lake and BBQ. We might even throw a pork chop towards Gordie's shack,he's like a bloodhound and will sniff it out of the snow bank.

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Most likely will not be there over the weekend meeting up with Dealer on Saturday and well Sunday is, you know family stuff to do,. You guys know the combo so spear out of it iffin you want. Heck there might even be a live sucker in the hole waiting to be used.

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