Thursday, August 11, 2011

poke a pike on the des plaines river

I spent 45 minutes last night fishing a feeder creek to the Des Plaines River (northern lake county).

des plaines river feeder creek
 I rolled this fish almost a half dozen times before catching him. Hungry little bastard!


des plaines river (feeder creek pike)

8 comments:

  1. yup, after missing him a few times i went upstream for 20 minutes. came back down and picked him off just before leaving

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  2. Blake
    That is one mean looking fish.

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  3. Persistence pays off. I'm often too quick to walk away from a missed fish.

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  4. Way to stick with it and work a fish with a lure until he hit. We call that "creating your own hatch". Nice fish.

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  5. clif+savage- it was one of my better pike out of this river. i couldnt give up after rolling him the first time. i learned the same lesson as mike iaconelli- never give up

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