I caught this beast of a pike with Chris Nelson on 12/21/2013. Chris started to have some medical complaints after this trip and was diagnosed with brain CANCER on 02/03/2014. On 02/15/2014, the day after we made it home from Chris’s last wish ice fishing trip to LOTW, Chris Nelson passed away. Chris was one of my best fishing buddies and brother in law. I hope to raise cancer awareness by having a December 2014 ice fishing trip in Chris Nelson’s memory. RIP CHRISN…we will always miss you!

yes, this is a fish of a lifetime…as one guy said I might as well pick up quilting and retire the rods cause I may never top it…it took almost 10 min to ice the beast once I saw it at the bottom of the hole…it tangled one of our other dead stick lines which did not allow me to use my reel for the last 15 feet…i didnt have a gaff so I used a couple of different tools to coax his head up but my arm and hand worked the best…wish I had a go pro to share the fight with everyone

And the walleye fishing for the most part was great…75 between 2 guys in 2.5 days…lots of catch and release with the 16-18 inch walleye class after our limit was reached.

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Dale…looks like u live in red wing and I assume travel to the meetings in Rochester…I think we should car pool over there for the meetings…I am out of durand, wi…let me know if ur interested.

Perfect, thanks fellas.

Thanks! I have been on the site and seems to be what I’m looking for with monthly fishing on the pool…I wish meetings were closer to pool 4 as I would like to attend regularly.