Nice Pike! I'd like to catch one of those too, and a Musky, but here in Michigan the best bait for those (live Carp) is illegal to use lol. Guess I could use a sucker though. I don't have any pictures on my phone of anything I've caught though. I've handed a 14 or 15 pound Carp, a 13 pound Lake Trout, and like 3 Channel Cats that were over 10 pounds.View attachment 95651 Just landed this little cutie.
Wild yodeling dogs?!?Home now, warm and content.
Ended up landing a dozen or so pike, most larger than the one in the photo but a few little wee ones too. Also saw some tiny perch and even had a big ol' sucker roll through shortly before I packed up.
Had a yodel dog watch me get my gear out of the car from up the road a little way, and later a pair were out on the ice. They've learned ice fishermen often leave treats in the form of lunch scraps or old bait, so they keep an eye on us.
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It was a bit frosty but a very enjoyable time.
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Coyotes.Wild yodeling dogs?!?
Good thing they circled the hook sticking through his jugular. We would’ve never seen it otherwise ?.View attachment 95683 View attachment 95684 View attachment 95685
Dude with a Circle Hook in his neck must have had one heck of a story to tell lol.
AKA Channel Cat bait ?Coyotes.
And you didn't even catch him? WTF? You should have pulled alongside and bulldogged him.All of a sudden I’m like a kid in a cake shop all excited and loaded with adrenaline. That’s what happens when a Great White cruises past coasting between ships . I was late on the shot ( apologies ) but he’s out there somewhere. Waiting ……….. View attachment 95728
And you didn't even catch him? WTF? You should have pulled alongside and bulldogged him.
That would be amazing to see a great white. I've never been around aquatic life big enough to kill me other than at Sea World.
Cowboys, real cowboys who grew up on a ranch and have been riding and chucking bales since shortly after they learned to walk, are some of the toughest fuckers walking this earth.When I was younger and just got out, I used to rodeo a bit...I still team rope (amateur) and do cowboy games...but I gave bareback, saddle bronc, bull dogging, and rodeo clowning a shot without much success...it's best to build those skills from your youth and when you bounce back.(Que in any Dale Brisby video here)!
One day off the coast of NC we were chumming over a rock formation in about 400' of water using electric reels to fish the bottom and trying to get fish that follow up to stay to catch them on the surface and all of a sudden there was a huge 12' 14' Great White Shark just poking it's head out of the water looking at us...we watched him for a while, them motored about 10 nautical miles to set up again...and there it was again...so there were more boats on this spot so we motored slowly past the other boats and shook him off on one of them...?...we get followed by sharks all the time ( wolfpaks) blacktips, bullsharks, dusky, etc...motherfuckersharks...first time ever seeing a Great White 5' away from me...impressive as hell. They do not fear you and they look right at you...they roll their eye out of water and look at you...if I was on a smaller boat...I would have been a bit nervous?.
I used to free dive...and some of the younger guys I fish with still do ...it takes a lot to get me in the water anymore...it's been too close too many times that the odds favor them now and not me...so I generally stay in the boat...yeah no surfing for me...you are just a surface lure/ top water bait for them.Wife and I go boogie boarding at Carlsbad State beach during summer, even got each other new boards for Christmas
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and we're seeing Great White sightings all along the coast the past several months. Saw a video couple days ago with a Great White jumping behind surfers. Shit. Grew up swimming, surfing and boarding in these waters and now not in any hury to get back in.
And you didn't even catch him? WTF? You should have pulled alongside and bulldogged him.
That would be amazing to see a great white. I've never been around aquatic life big enough to kill me other than at Sea World.
And you didn't even catch him? WTF? You should have pulled alongside and bulldogged him.
That would be amazing to see a great white. I've never been around aquatic life big enough to kill me other than at Sea World.