Ok So this is my first report on the site, I just joined up on this fine Thursday morning June 3rd. The day Im going to tell you about was a fairly nice December day in 2009. I was out with a buddy fishing the sydenham river in wallaceburg, fishing for Musky and Pike. We were trolling plugs and big crankbaits but werent hitting anything from about 7am till 10. We decided to go out on the river(st.clair) and see if we could get any action out there. We didnt get much action trolling along the shore so we went to a little in-let that we knew guys were catching alot of perch and smallies. I instantly switched over from a plug to a 8" perch model rapala. Within a couple of minutes I caught onto a 26" pike....nothing to brag about but first fish of the day either way. About 2 hours later (high noon) Id been switching lures and trying some top water, bucktails, pikies etc etc and then decided to go a little bigger and threw on the 11" kickin minnor again in perch style...This is when a perch fisherman was talking to us from a bridge we went under(he was on top of the bridge) and let me know that there were no "sharks" in the water (referring to my 11"lure) as he chuckled to himself...I replied with we'll see, wont we? anyways... It is a real gloot reeling this puppy in and casting her out being that it is one big and heavy lure and when your hands are already cold in the middle of december its not the easiest time to cast when youve been out on the water for nearly 6 hours already, and only boated one fish. So I was doing the laziest(but still effective) thing I could think of and that was cast her out, let it sink,yank, reel, let it sink,yank, reel,let it sink and just as I started to let it sink again the line tightened up and away she went!!! I yelled to my buddy, GOT ONE, as I set the hook praying to get a good hook setting!I did and the she was hooked.... My buddy immediately went for the net and was awaiting the battle. After a couple good minutes of battling this beast, she surfaced about 30 feet out, and after seeing her from a distance I knew we had something worth bragging about! Of course our first reaction was hoping for a big musky! Well we got the big, but unfortunately not the musky.....it was a big Northern Pike! Still good enough for me though! We got her landed after about 15-20 minutes of battling and in the end a total lenght of 37" and about 15 lbs. Certainly made the day worth while and certainly proved to the perch fisherman that you have to use big lures to catch big fish!! I live in just outside of sarnia and have been fishing pike and musky since the day I could walk. This is the biggest Ive landed in southern Ontario (lake stclair, st.clair river, lake huron, sydenham river). Have landed a couple 42 inchers in north bay and numeroud 35+ in northern ontario but this was my biggest in southern ontario so far! Hope everyone enjoys the story and pictures to go along with it.
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