Missed Pike

[antgogz]

Well I was not going to make this a post but it has been on my mind all day. Yesterday I was invited to go to pines lake. I spent the morning being blown all over the place in my kayak so I got off the water and ate lunch. I then decided to fish from shore. At around 1 when it began to warm up I decided to throw a big perch colored husky jerk. On my second cast I was reeling in my lure and a huge pike sniffed my lure up to my ankles and quickly bit the end of the rapala, looked up and saw me, and then circled back away. This fish had to be at least 40" inches and was thick. I know because I watched my buddy site cast a 42" pike except the fish that followed mine was even thicker. I spent the next couple hours trying to get him to recommit and he was no where in site. I guess the large pike are pretty smart fish. He was probably caught before because I noticed in the reports all of the big ones have been caught through the ice! LOL.....Anyways just that site alone made the trip worth it and it would have shattered my old personal best pike.