snip ref's about little minnow----------> The post about a hungry pike me thinking about something that I've yet to find an adequate solution for. That is, "How does one bring in a say, 30 inch pike, when one is in a kayak?" I know of a relatively accessible creek [for you Michiganders: "Crick" 8-)] that has a suprising population of Walleye, and Pike. I met up with one of the latter... It's a nice story-got a good grade on it in school even, but to shorten it: I had my Aquaterra Caspia in a creek that was maybe 20 feet wide, and was suprised to catch three walleye in four casts... it was the fourth fish, the pike that impressed me by actually towing me upstream... until that is, I got it out of the water. I managed to measure it [tip of snout to the start of the tail fin] 27inches-really. Problem was that I had a heck of a time getting the hook out of the beasties mouth without either injuring myself or letting go my paddle. Later I regretted not keeping the fish. [when told where I was fishing there were a number of folks, that were more than a bit skeptical] I wonder, does anyone on the list have any experience/ideas about how to actually bring back one of these "toothy torpedoes"? Tom... P.S. For those interested off-list. I won't expect you to believe me any more than anyone else did... Tom Weese Kirkland, Wa. Three left turns often make a right... <http://www.isomedia.com/homes/gadfly/> *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Feb 21 1998 - 16:37:35 PST
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