I finally got back out and Shane get’s his biggest pike ever!

Some times fishin just has to take a back seat to life….unfortunately.

Anyway, I finally mamged to get back out on the lake this morning for a few hours of fishing with a friend of mine. Surprisingly this was the first time he’s been able to get out this year! Poor bastard.

So we launched out of harley ensign just before sunrise and headed south to a patch of weeds I know holds some fish between the clinton river outlet and huron point. We put on some bucktails, shane was throwing a black and orange double willow while I was throwing a big brown bucktail with silver blades. It was also a double willow leaf. I actually tied both and a few other bucktails the night before.

After drifting towards the clinton river outlet for about 10 min shane got a follow from a nice low 40′s fish. He has never targeted big toothy fish before so he really didn’t understand what you need to do when you have a fish following. All I heard was”Holy shit!” and I looked back. Instead of speeding up the bait he slowed it down and the musky immediately darted off. So I took a few minutes to show him what to do, including how to figure 8 and the basics of speeding up the bait and changing direction so that it looks like it’s trying to get away.

I switched up to a red bucktail with charteuse and red blades and soon after caught a 2 lb largemouth bass. It smacked the snot out of the buckie and I thought I had a bigger fish at first. Oh well at least it was a fish!

After we drifted through the spot on the spot. We headed south of huron point to drift across a break I’ve found to hold fish. Again one of those spots on the spot. The first drift shane got another follow from a small fish, around 30″ or so, and I had a on and off. I have no idea of the size. It was big enough to stop everything completely though. The second drift got us nothing so we headed north between SANG (selfridge air national guard) and the salt river.

We drifted toward the salt river, about midway between the 2 in 6 FOW. Roughtly 1/3 mile off shore. Shane put on a purple & silver bucktails and on the second cast he had a follow. Next cast another follow! on the third cast the fish actually hit the bucktail but he missed it! At this point I’m just laughing and making fun of him! He’s all geeked up and completely forgot everything I showed him earlier. NExt cast the fish follows it and smacks it close to the boat. He gives a jerk and misses again. The bucktail got all tangled up and when he finally got it fixed the fish was no where to be seen. We kept drifitng and I had something smack my gold & chartreuse bucktail, which I missed.

We kept on drifting and a little while later I hear “OOOOOOOOOO, Get the NET!!!!! This is a good one!” So I crank my lure in fast and grab the needle nose pliers and the net. He gets the fish next to the boat and it’s a decent pike. I net it and he grabs it out. The only problem is he has his fingers in the gills. So I grab the fish and show him how to properly hold the fish. Once he’s go it I snap a picture and we put it in my re-coop box. In there  it measuers 34″ long. Shanes personal record.

His PR a 34" northern pike

Unfortunately I had things to do so we left about 30 min later.

It looks like I’ve turned another bass fisherman into a musky/pike guy! Woohoo!!! Hopefully I can get back out with him next sunday and we can spend a few more hours out there.

I didn;t catch anything but a small bass but I still ahd a blast and I’m really happy that he got his PR pike.

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