I fish a decent sized body of water that probably 6 times bigger than the ponds I fish maybe more. This place is stocked with trout. But I never see any trout being caught. On one overcast I seen a very large and long fish ambushing fish near the cattails. It was making big circle turns. Now the feeder stream runs to a lake were great northern pike were stocked to control the white perch population. I'm thinking a pike got washed into this place that's down stream during the winter runoff. And it's main diet is the stocked trout. I been throwing the larger minnowbaits when I see it near the cattails but no hookup yet. I guess I'm going to throw my pike/muskie lures next. What do you think?

I'm guessing that no one knows this pike is in there.

Give it a shot and let us know what happens.

Smelt works real well ...its worth trying a little longer if the lures don't work ....did a lot of Northern Pike fishing in Montana before Mexico and I never had a lot of luck with lures ...although I did get a lot of Walleye on lure... Good luck fishing  

Years ago some pike got into a catfish lake that I use to fish.  It was thought that some of the minnows that were being sold for bait in the area were pike.  The people that managed the lake put up signs that said if you caught one you were not to put it back into the lake.