So for the last two years I have been going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario but I am originally from the West Metro area back in MN. Last Friday night a couple buddies and I headed out onto Lake Superior to chase some pike.
I had caught two pike a couple of days earlier, a 34″ and 38″ near the mouth of a river. We hit that spot first, after about an hour or so of picking apart every square foot of the river mouth, no fish. I have to admit I didn’t have the best feeling after that.
We headed over to another spot within the Thunder Bay Harbor. The waters in the main part of the Harbor were at the 54 degree mark, the spot we just pulled up on the temperatures read 62 degrees and 1.5 to about 8 ft deep. The bottom was sand with a few weeds coming up around the 8 ft mark where bottom changed to more of a mud. I knew we were probably close to a spring gator haven. I just didn’t know how close, very first cast a thick 40 inch fish hit my white spinner bait.
The chaos that ensued thereafter was unreal. I had three guys in my boat and together we boated 15 Pike in about 2 hours. The largest being 44 inches and an estimated 28 lbs caught on an X-rap. and the smallest was 33 inches. 3 fish over 40″ Truly one of those “only a few times in your life” kind of fishing nights.
I haven’t done a whole lot of pike chasing on the great lakes but I have to believe this is a pattern you can put to use on many large deep bodies of water, given the right timing.
Pictured here are the a 40″, 39″ and a 44″
Go get em out there guys,
wlueck
Now that looks like fun!
