My new nightmare...

[NJSquatch]

ROUGH!!! love how the fish gave you the total FU by tossing the lure back in your face....

[bunker dunker]

that's why we say"that fish gave a great fight" because it is a fight.sounds like this round went to mr pike but there is still allot of time left in this game.get your gear back together and go kick his arse!!great story Chris,sorry about the rod.

[Andrushkin33]

Man,

Nothing beats "the one that got away stories"

Strange how those stories stick in our memories more than the ones where we actually landed the fish

You'll get him Chris he wont be enjoying his advantage for long


Andre

[Jigman13]

I thought this was gonna be a story about you having nightmares of repeatedly netting my fish all night!!! Lol jk...

In all seriousness, sounds like a true battle! Regroup, reload, and hopefully we'll be seeing beast pics before too long! When pike fishing on the P, I only use my medium heavy ugly stick. It'll never blow up!

[yumasdad]

Great story, sorry for your loss of an old friend.

Looks like you r in ur Ahab mode too.....

Going after my white whale tonight too.
I am adding more barrels to my boat, getting the meat sticks out & recording shark week tonight!

[Chrisper4694]

Hahaha well it was a decent shimano, but maybe I'll go your route. It'll save me some money too I guess. I can't even find my paperwork to see if they actually honor the lifetime warranty on their rods.

[JDTuna]

Sorry to hear about the lost beast, you'll get him next time!

On a side note, are the leaders you are using multistrand? On multistrsnd leaders, if just one or two of the strands break the leader drastically loses its strength. That's why I prefer single strand. At least the fish shook the lure. I use fluoro, and had a bite off the other day so I may be adding a short piece of wire to my setup. Out of countless numbers of pike, I have only had two biteoffs (one of them I retrieved the lure and retried and caught the fish), so it's rare for me, but I don't want to risk it again.

[Jigman13]

60 lb fluoro or better should suffice.

[justin1982]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

I thought this was gonna be a story about you having nightmares of repeatedly netting my fish all night!!! Lol jk...

In all seriousness, sounds like a true battle! Regroup, reload, and hopefully we'll be seeing beast pics before too long! When pike fishing on the P, I only use my medium heavy ugly stick. It'll never blow up!

That's what I use, I'll blow up before that rod does! Lol, you'll get her next time, can't wait to see this beast

[Chrisper4694]

No I don't like that multi strand stuff it's bulky and like said gets frayed. I use nickel titanium single strand wire leader and I've never snapped it before. In fact I once snapped the eagle claw swivel I was using on it once (wont use eagle claw since that if I can avoid it). All I can guess is that both the rod and leader had been damaged at some point and I didn't notice. Like I said, dragged in a 47" musky on that exact entire setup...I was totally baffled when everything busted on me...I'm not saying it was bigger than that musky but it was a huge fish!