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Bass will nest close to the bank with their nest being circles in the gravel a couple of feet wide. Of course, the male bass will actively protect the nest from predators and keep it clean.
I read in a golf magazine a ling time ago. A guy was hitting to a green that had a water hazard right up to the edge. He hit it a little fat and watched his ball hit the water a few feet from the bank. Ten seconds or so goes by and all of the sudden his ball popped back up on the bank. When he got up to the ball and looked in the water, there was a nest there with a bass that was about three pounds in it. The ball had landed in the nest and the male bass had picked it up and spit it out of the nest.
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I was fishing the headwaters of the Mississippi one time. I was standing on the rocks that you can walk across with the rest of the tourons.
Pretty soon, I heard a yelp and some splashing/thrashing around. I looked over and saw an 8 foot female bull shark with what appeared to be a full grown Irish Setter in it's mouth. The lady on the other end of the leash was hysterical and screaming.
Her husband did not give a schidt.
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I was fishing the headwaters of the Mississippi one time. I was standing on the rocks that you can walk across with the rest of the tourons.
Pretty soon, I heard a yelp and some splashing/thrashing around. I looked over and saw an 8 foot female bull shark with what appeared to be a full grown Irish Setter in it's mouth. The lady on the other end of the leash was hysterical and screaming.
Her husband did not give a schidt. Yeah, they don't get much size to them in skinny water. Seen 15 footers in Pool 9.
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Never weighed one. Never heard many that did. It was measure em and turn em back mostly.
50 inches is the goal in AK. In the right places its not hard to hit 50. At least some years ago out in the bush. This. The Novi has pike to 60" in it. When they swim to your bait they do not make a vee-wake... there are 5 or 6 wakes headed in your direction 😉 *Nowitna*
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I was fishing the headwaters of the Mississippi one time. I was standing on the rocks that you can walk across with the rest of the tourons.
Pretty soon, I heard a yelp and some splashing/thrashing around. I looked over and saw an 8 foot female bull shark with what appeared to be a full grown Irish Setter in it's mouth. The lady on the other end of the leash was hysterical and screaming.
Her husband did not give a schidt. Yeah, they don't get much size to them in skinny water. Seen 15 footers in Pool 9. Those must be Tiger Sharks.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
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I've another fish tale. True, not stretched even a bit. I probably wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't seen it. I was on the opposite side from our salmon counting camp on Good News River in SW Alaska, 1981, fishing for dinner when on the camp side of river I saw a fish jump out of the water onto a sloping bank 18 inches or so above water surface, flop once or twice, then back into the river. Repeat twice more. I figured it was a fish with a tangled line- a couple guided drift boats had come thru a couple hours before, down from Redfish Lake, so I waded over to investigate. Just in front of the sloped overhang cutbank was a big drowned willow, with a washtub sized opening in the center. Figuring I'd lose my lure (a Krokodile or R&W spoon- I forget which - I jigged it down in the opening, just for the heck of it, and it got taken. No fight to the fish as I easily lead it out to a 6 inch wide, foot long "beach" just above the cut-bank and landed it. 6 1/2 pound hen rainbow - supper for 3 men and some for the Lab! She had several voles in her stomach, one in her gullet, and another in the upper throat or mouth, with the tail hanging out the corner of her mouth. Greed can kill you... and being over-stuffed makes one lethargic... Nearest I could figure from the sign - a vole runway near the crest of the overhanging cutback - she was skylining voles on their trail and leaping ashore to nail them, then flopping her way back into water. I've posted this here before, and it was published in a letter to some outdoor magazine - Western Outdoors I think. The editor (Steve?) didn't believe me either.... but that's OK... I saw it. Riley and I were pike fishing Alexander Lake late one summer. It was hot and dusty. We saw a bunch of pike lined up side-by-side along a flat beach. A vole came out of a grass hummock and ran along the beach right in front of the pike. Most of the pike launched a little late before one got it right. They flopped a bit to get back in the water. Then they lined back up. I do have skull picture from a lingcod, but it was just a 98 pounder. (Well okay, 65)
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A Tiger Shark...
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Never weighed one. Never heard many that did. It was measure em and turn em back mostly.
50 inches is the goal in AK. In the right places its not hard to hit 50. At least some years ago out in the bush. This. The Novi has pike to 60" in it. When they swim to your bait they do not make a vee-wake... there are 5 or 6 wakes headed in your direction 😉 *Nowitna* Do you fish with seafire?
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Never weighed one. Never heard many that did. It was measure em and turn em back mostly.
50 inches is the goal in AK. In the right places its not hard to hit 50. At least some years ago out in the bush. This. The Novi has pike to 60" in it. When they swim to your bait they do not make a vee-wake... there are 5 or 6 wakes headed in your direction 😉 *Nowitna* My father wrote several articles in Alaska Magazine on the Novi back about 50 years. He was friends with Homer Sutton, the FAA chief there. My father bought a 760 from him and ended up having it rebored to 35WAI and restocked it for me as a college graduation gift.
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love chasing pike. Just got a friend her first pike
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I don't have any 60 lb northerns or 45 lb walleyes. However, One time I was fishing for flathead catfish on the Wisconsin river one night . The clicker goes off and I find a channel cat in the net. It was about 8 lbs. I take off the hook and notice a bird in it's mouth. Another time my brother ad I were fishing in the Quetico canoe area ( Ontario) . He had a decent walleye to the boat and a northern about 30" came in and stole our dinner. Another time, on June 19, 1998. I was again fishing for flatheads when the clicker goes off. I set the hook . I was fishing in brush, so set the drag with a pliers so there was no giving him line.. I could hear line stretching like crazy on my cat rig, an Oceanmaster rod with a Senator 113 real loaded with 80 lb test.. After abut 5 seconds, it became clear this was not just an ordinary cat. I could hardly hold the pole and it was horizontal , just then it lets go and I find out he broke my Eagle Claw 254 N 8/0 hook.. I guess I am just an ordinary fisherman . Also, when I was running a trap line when I was 15 , I got a skunk in the trap and it sprayed me. I smelled real bad , went home and took a shower . I got to school just in time for class. Just then, they all started to gag and told me I smell like a skunk aso they kicked me out of school for the day.. Does that count?
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headed back in June. Ontario. Caught 100's of pike over a weeks time. 41" was biggest. What would that weigh?
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I don't have any 60 lb northerns or 45 lb walleyes. However, One time I was fishing for flathead catfish on the Wisconsin river one night . The clicker goes off and I find a channel cat in the net. It was about 8 lbs. I take off the hook and notice a bird in it's mouth. Another time my brother ad I were fishing in the Quetico canoe area ( Ontario) . He had a decent walleye to the boat and a northern about 30" came in and stole our dinner. Another time, on June 19, 1998. I was again fishing for flatheads when the clicker goes off. I set the hook . I was fishing in brush, so set the drag with a pliers so there was no giving him line.. I could hear line stretching like crazy on my cat rig, an Oceanmaster rod with a Senator 113 real loaded with 80 lb test.. After abut 5 seconds, it became clear this was not just an ordinary cat. I could hardly hold the pole and it was horizontal , just then it lets go and I find out he broke my Eagle Claw 254 N 8/0 hook.. I guess I am just an ordinary fisherman . Also, when I was running a trap line when I was 15 , I got a skunk in the trap and it sprayed me. I smelled real bad , went home and took a shower . I got to school just in time for class. Just then, they all started to gag and told me I smell like a skunk aso they kicked me out of school for the day.. Does that count? Things in yellow cats. Buddy caught a 63 pound yellow. When they cleaned it the belly was big. Cut it open. Possum in the belly.
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41" was biggest. What would that weigh? At least 35 sea-lbs.
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A length to weight conversion table I have used states a 41 inch pike would weigh 17.71 lbs. I’ve found that to be a little light based on actually weighing on a digital scale, fish I had measured. Your 41 is chunky! That same table states that a 50 would weigh 32.73 lbs. I don’t have any experience with 50 inch pike! I’ve always thought of them as 200 inch whitetails! I’ve never seen either.
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] A couple muskies in there to boot. As for me , I love going for big northerns. My biggest is only 36" . It was caught in Cananda. I have several others in the low 30" . My next haunt for big northerns ore the Mississippi River, and The Bay Of Green Bay.
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I have an old picture around here somewhere, (my house is being remodeled, so don't know where) of my grandfather, great-uncle, and dad's cousin with a bobsled load of northern pike. There were at least thirty pike, as long as the width of the bobsled, about 48". The picture was taken sometime prior to February 1920, at Poplar Creek on Minnesota's Northwest Angle, Lake of the Woods.
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A length to weight conversion table I have used states a 41 inch pike would weigh 17.71 lbs. I’ve found that to be a little light based on actually weighing on a digital scale, fish I had measured. Your 41 is chunky! That same table states that a 50 would weigh 32.73 lbs. I don’t have any experience with 50 inch pike! I’ve always thought of them as 200 inch whitetails! I’ve never seen either. we caught several that long but that one definitely had more girth than the others.
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