Northern Pike Photo Gallery

[iowaperch44]

42 inches

[roughfish29]

my dads fish

FAIL

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Got this one 7/31 on a rapala she inhaled it. Got the jaw spreader got the lure out with no damage, but she made one thrash a second after this shot and back to the water so I didn't get any firm measurements, felt at least a good 5 lbs though.

[mrklean]

nice job pink, you killing them on the rapalas arent you. I havent been fishing in weeks its horrible

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Yes, this fire tiger rattling rapala has been a go to this year. Camped the last week in Moose Lake that's where I got this one, we'll have to make a trek out one of these weekends coming up

[roughfish29]

27.5 inch from today on a big jointed shad x-rap

sorry for the crappy pic, i couldn't get the durn thing to hold still for a self-timer photo

bit my hand pretty good while landing but you can't see the blood in the pic

[Lunker]

Here is a 34" Wisconsin River pike from earlier summer. Caught on a black spinnerbait along a rip rap shoreline.

Unfortunatley, the massive chew in my lip gives my kind of a weird expression...

[MNMUSKIES]

Here is a 26 incher from last night. Was musky fishing and it hit a double cowgirl.

[nortonlam]

I landed this 27" on Poplar Lake on the Gunflint Trail using a white pearl super fluke. When I saw him at the boat, I got him in my net, and just as I got him in the boat, he thrashed and my line broke! Caught some other nice fish that outing. Here's the full story:

http://nortonlam.com/fishingjournal/2009/08/01/one-more-outing-pays-off/

[mrklean]

MN are those bit marks all over that pike?

[Aaron Carrell]

Well, here's a few pictures from this year's pike fishing for myself. Oh, and check out the fish in the last picture.... scoliosis? :-p

34" (in the rain)

34.25"

32"

Curvy fish...

[MNMUSKIES]

mrklean,

I looked at them and I guess that's what they were. There are a couple of good size chuncks taken out, not sure what else they could be

[pinkfloyd4ever]

ya, it makes you think those fish are in a fight for their life every day, looking back a lot of fish have some sort of recent looking injuries on them huh?

[pinkfloyd4ever]

Edited: pic added. Fairly confident this is the same fish caught this past weekend, the orange color above the gill seen in both pics is what makes me believe it is the same fish. Measurements were 29.5 and 6.2# CPR'd again to catch another day.

[mrklean]

nice job pink

[Lunker]

Here are a couple from yesterday. We were fishing a small lake in Itasca county. We went there on friday to fish for bass and lost a 30"+ northern. We knew there were some big fish in there so we went back and fished deep for pike. Managed these two, a smaller fish, a couple of bass, and got cut off by a big pike. Caught by dragging white plastic creature baits on 1/2 ounce jigs through sparse 3-6ft tall coontail on a 20ft deep flat next to a steep dropoff. 35" and 31" fish.

[Lunker]

My 81 year old wheel chair bound father with a small pike caught last weekend trolling with a pontoon. Good old red and white. He can't fish much anymore so it was pretty cool.

[trappingaddiction]

That is great that you took him out there to fish!

[pinkfloyd4ever]

cool story and pic lunker

[jwhjr]

Great story and pic lunker.

[Mike Stark]

38in 17lb pike from basswood

[chaffmj]

Nice pike Mike. I am going into Basswood next Tuesday for 4 days can't wait.

[Mike Stark]

hoist bay is all I have to say.

[solbes]

Beauty from Basswood! Would like to get there someday...

[roughfish29]

it looks like she was bleeding pretty badly, was she ok?