Pike!

I’ve been fishing Seven Tree, Round and White Oak ponds quite a bit this season. A pike was taken through the ice last winter and the regional biologists reported a couple in North Pond a little further down river last fall. Consequently I have been watching pretty closely to see if any more would show up this summer. Every pickerel was getting a careful look over to be sure it was not a pike. I guess that I did not need to watch so closely. This afternoon a pike of seven pounds and twenty nine inches was caught on light spinning gear by one of my clients.

The bass fishing had been pretty good all morning even though the fish were running a little small. This fish made for an eventful afternoon. Interesting that the biggest bass of a two day fishing trip came less than a half an hour later and not two hundred yards down the bank. Needless to say it looks like pike are in the Saint George drainage to stay.