First day with my new Pflueger president XT reel and I hooked on to this huge pike. Reel performed flawlessly. Caught him on my new white chatterbait with a white Keitch minnow trailer.

 

 

 

Nice one! Love a nice pike bite every so often!

Good stuff!

 

With the shadows, it looks like your paddle is actually

a weapon ready to eviscerate the pike...or cut the line.

I’ve been eyeballing those reels, I really like my limited edition president, but those XT’s look really nice to!

54 minutes ago, Darren. said:

Good stuff!

 

With the shadows, it looks like your paddle is actually

a weapon ready to eviscerate the pike...or cut the line.

 

I still don't have a net. Procrastination or laziness I don't know. There at Pottawatomie Park you fish from a boardwalk and there's a railing so you really need some way to land your fish. I had to lay on the walk and reach down and when I did the pike wasn't having any of it and he thrashed and cut off the line. Thankfully my lure fell out of his mouth and I was able to retrieve it.

 

11 minutes ago, frosty said:

I’ve been eyeballing those reels, I really like my limited edition president, but those XT’s look really nice to!

It's an awesome reel. I would highly recommend it.

Nice pike. I used to fish without a net till one day had a fat 32 inch pike bite while fishing smallies. Had to call over another fisherman to paddle over and net it for me. I bought a net that night.

13 hours ago, Cak920 said:

Nice pike. I used to fish without a net till one day had a fat 32 inch pike bite while fishing smallies. Had to call over another fisherman to paddle over and net it for me. I bought a net that night.

 

 

Bought a new fishing net this morning, then christened it twenty minutes later by catching this pike. He's a small one compared to the other lunkers I've been catching. Net worked great so I shouldn't be loosing anymore fish.

12 hours ago, frosty said:

I’ve been eyeballing those reels, I really like my limited edition president, but those XT’s look really nice to!

They do look sweet, the 2000 weighs 5.6oz ?

8 minutes ago, Dtrombly said:

They do look sweet, the 2000 weighs 5.6oz ?

I got the 3500. Smooth as glass, 10 bearings and really horses the fish in.