Awesome Incidental....

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Awesome Incidental....

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Bass Fisherman have been harassed by them forever.....Pike.

But when they are like this one.....I'll take em all day long!

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A few more pics and the rundown of how lucky I got to land this sucka is on my blog....

http://rjnbirdeesoutdooradventures.blog ... ental.html

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Nice fish RJ!
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Post by Steady Eddy »

Nice catch, any guess-timate on how heavy she was ?
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That gal is a real dandy!
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Post by wolfe »

Incidental or accidental...I guess, but AWESOME...? Definitely!!

And landed on leaderless mono! :shock:

Great job on landing it -- and for your friend, Joe, on an A+ net job.


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Nice looking pike RJ.
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Post by landshark »

nice fish RJ, i got a 20 lber this spring while brown trout trolling with 10lb test. Its always fun to get an uxepected bonus.
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Post by JustinHoffman »

Beauty fish, RJ... :lol:

Love the clean colours and sagging belly on her!

Good Fishing,

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Post by baz fish »

Nice pike RJ :D .
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beauty
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Good job RJ nice Pike and thanks for the picture.

It's beauty.


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Great looking pike Rob... chunky to say the least :)
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Steady Eddy wrote:Nice catch, any guess-timate on how heavy she was ?
I didn't want to hang her on the scale Eddy...but I'd guess somewhere between 13 and 15 pounds......
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Post by C5 »

nice fish RJ... using floro leaders makes landing the odd pike easier yeh?
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Post by RJ »

There was no fluro leader is sight for this one......10 pound test Mono only.........I got very lucky.
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