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Almost forgot to mention but last spring while back in Minne visiting the fam I did some fly fishing for crappies with my 5 wt. First night out and the last cast I hooked into a 36" pike, lets just say I made two phone calls during the sporty encounter..grin

I finally got him in and let him go back to his home a bit more tired than he was earlier in the day.

Dober

Guys....I could put you allover 40" pike if you could put me on a mulie/antelope.

What part of Manitoba do you live in and have you ever fly fished for pike? Also is it safe to assume that you try to release most of the big fish you catch?

And last question, what do you normally find a 40" pike to weigh?

Thx
Dober

I live in Winnipeg but fish for summertime pike far north of here. I don't fly fish at all but my buddy is hardcore (and very very good). He's also the head guide at Utik Lake (google it). I and everyone in my boat releases EVERY big fish caught and I would expect the same from you. Right now (March) a 40 will be pushing 20 lbs and but in mid/late summer only 18 lbs or so. As luck would have it I'm leaving in a couple hours for 3 days of piking! LOL

Here's a few pics from a 2 day trip last August. We caught probably a dozen or so between 38" - 43"....

Wowsa that is some pike that guy caught on his fly rod! Gotta get you hooked on doing it with a fly rod, once you've done it your other fishing rods will not see any game time dats for sure!!

I'll take a look at the Utik Lake when I get a second. Glad to hear you let em all go back to grow up..

Kind of figured a 40" would go 17 to 18 during the summer, wonderful fish and a refreshing thread!

Dober

Hey I just googled Utik lake and several lodges came up, which one does the fly fisherman guide for?

Thx
Dober

He catches lots like that LOL. You should see the pigs he pulls outta Utik! You'll see his picture allover the website. There is only one lodge on Utik, it's called North Haven I think? I've done the fly fishing thing, not my cup of tea but I almost think that's cheating after watching my buddy tease the gators out of cabbage beds with the big maraboo thingys he ties! LOL

you have a pm.

Thx

Dober

You guys are killin' me. I could only dream of catching pike like that.

Dober...we are planning a trip up in 2011, Ill drop you a line...so to speak...with particulars if you are interested...my fave lodge, Catch-n-release only,100 fish days are common..
One day during the week we each keep a little one and it is cooked up shore lunch style...



Shari with Supper!!


Also got my " personal best" up there, with a fly...55 casts....55 pike!


Ingwe

Definately keep me in the loop, is this a guys deal or a guys and galz deal?

55 with 55 has got to be a world record!

Dober

Actually, Dober, it's more like cheating to fish for them with fly tackle. They are suckers for big flies, bugs and poppers!

Ted

Mark, its a guys/gals deal....

I could do a lot of things without Ingwewife getting upset, but if I went pike fishing without her, she would "lawyer-up" while I was gone!

I'll tell you about it tween now and then but its a sweet deal, fly in,moderately priced, and the new owners are the old care-takers...who really know how to run an outfit like this...

Its where I took your 9 wt....to break it in....


Ingwe

Mark, did you ever hook into that one off the dock at your folks place? You talked about it once before, you even had a name for that big girl I think?

Great pictures guys! We are getting very close to our late ice pike run up on lake of the woods.

Nope never did Dave, fact is last summer there were hardly any fish at all around there dock? Weird....even the sunnies had gone by by..?

Dober

that's strange, especially for the panfish. must be something changed with the plant life?

Well fellers, i'm tuning in plans for a big pike hunt on Lake of the woods MN next weekend.

I have the spot picked out, oh it's gonna be a good one. bound to be 10 or a dozen of us out there if not more. 2 lines each, there will be some fish pictures for sure.

Just talked to my step bro who fished this spot just this week. Biggest they caught was a 46"

Forty six freeking inches of pike, that's a nasty beast to be fighting on a piece of string hand over hand standing over a hole in the ice.

ND, heres my first big one on Ultralight ( #6 line...4'6" rod) back in about 1992...this one went 42inches..




Have fun at Lake-o-da-woods!!!

Ingwe

I can't find the picture I am looking for of my 42 1/2" but i did find this lil guy while searching for the other pic.

Here's one of me & my oldest boy, this is the fish pictured at the top of this thread that's being cleaned on the bottom of the canoe.

must have been around 2003?

Great pics of feesh guys!

Dave have you done much time in the Boundry waters?

Dober