Son's first pike

[kickingfrog]

My son has been keen to go on some hunting and fishing adventures for the last few years and lately he's been very interested in catching a pike. He's progressed from panfish when he was 3-4 and then bass last year the 1.5lb smallmouth on his ultralite was the "whopper" he talked about all the time. His casting has come along and after a good day on Friday for my brother and I it was his turn to get some slime.

Early Sunday was great, little bit of fog and we were off.

He had a pike on while casting a minnow bait that came unhooked right at the boat but he took it in stride (Guess he's seen his dad do that a few times) and wanted more.

Topwater pike




He didn't have the biggest bird's nest of the day.


Took me almost an hour sitting in my living room today to get ^that^ one out.

We trolled a bit form spot to spot and he got a hit. As I was bringing in my line I had a hit as well and uncle had to do the double net job
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I was more excited about the father/son double header for his first pike then he was about the toothy fish he got to bring home for his family to eat.

[JMatthews]

What a great experience!

[sparky30250]

Nice catch and looks like you had great weather for your trip and your son looks happy.

[GoldenLakePete]

Congratulations to your son! You're a good Dad!

You've also got much more patience than me - I would have just cut out that bird's nest!

[Angus]

Great story and pics ! Enjoy them while they are young, they grow up so fast.

[kickingfrog]

You've also got much more patience than me - I would have just cut out that bird's nest!

It was considered since it wasn't the normal backlash. I hooked someone's line on my backcast and the line looked like rice noodles in hot oil. I left it since the fish were biting, I had another rod and I figured I'd give it a shot at home. Cutting it out would have meant a complete re-spool since it was so deep and I had just marked off the first hundred feet to use it as a flat-line trolling outfit.