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brandon72801
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 Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 9:29 pm Post subject: Lake Lillinonah 4/21/13 |
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Fished from 2pm-6pm, mainly in the upper Shepaug arm without a bite for 3hrs. Finally we decided to fish some docks on the eastern shoreline and got a small keeper SMB on a blue/black hair jig in 10-15 FOW. My first fish on Lily in three trips this year...not my favorite lake but it's just down the road, so it's easy. We continued to fish the same dock and I get a nice hit after fipping the same jig to the edge of the dock. She makes a couple runs and I'm hoping for a nice sized smallie, finally get her to the boat and it's not a smallie! My first ever pike. 35" and some nice girth to her...didn't get a weight. Fished for another hour without a bite, but that was OK.
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fishfinder
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Location: Naugatuck, Ct.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Im sorry but you couldnt tell the difference from that and a SMB! Must have been a lazy Pike as the few Pike Ive caught were smaller then that and immediately I knew they were no Bass!
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brandon72801
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| fishfinder wrote: | | Im sorry but you couldnt tell the difference from that and a SMB! Must have been a lazy Pike as the few Pike Ive caught were smaller then that and immediately I knew they were no Bass! |
I've caught some big smallies that have fought almost as hard. Never having landed a pike, and not in that mindset, I was thinking smallie. |
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x182dan
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Is it just me or is that pike really skinny?
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PECo
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:13 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations on getting such a nice looking northern pike, especially for your first. Wait'll you get your second; it'll be a monster. 
| x182dan wrote: | | Is it just me or is that pike really skinny? |
It's just you, Dan.  
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x182dan
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| PECo wrote: | Congratulations on getting such a nice looking northern pike, especially for your first. Wait'll you get your second; it'll be a monster.
| x182dan wrote: | | Is it just me or is that pike really skinny? |
It's just you, Dan. |
well i guess mine just have full stomachs then. Im not saying its a bad fish but its skinny for being 35" long. It looks like the girth of something 25" long would have.
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stripertime
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| it is april dan the pike are all skinny they just got done spawning my buddy and i got 4 pike saturday and biggest was 37in 11lb skinny fish they will put on weight soon and look not as skinny |
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PECo
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| stripertime wrote: | | it is april dan the pike are all skinny they just got done spawning my buddy and i got 4 pike saturday and biggest was 37in 11lb skinny fish they will put on weight soon and look not as skinny |
A 37 inch northern pike that weighs 11 pounds isn't skinny!  Male, maybe, but not skinny. 
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Michael
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Congrats on your first pike Brandon!! Pike is practically the only freshwater gamefish I've never caught in CT. |
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Jeff
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| Nice! Pike are awesome to catch. I caught my first one on the ice a few years ago. |
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NorthEastFisherman
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| x182dan wrote: | | Is it just me or is that pike really skinny? |
Thats what i was thinking, but its still a big, healthy pike. Im still waiting for that big one. |
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stripertime
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| PECo wrote: | | stripertime wrote: | | it is april dan the pike are all skinny they just got done spawning my buddy and i got 4 pike saturday and biggest was 37in 11lb skinny fish they will put on weight soon and look not as skinny |
A 37 inch northern pike that weighs 11 pounds isn't skinny! Male, maybe, but not skinny. |
yes phil that is a skinny pike if that pike was caught ice fishing it would be in the 15lb range and 37in is a small fish to my buddy and i we wont even take pics unless they are 40in or bigger   |
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Fishin'Fireman
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Congrats on your first Pike, that's a very respectable first!
Pike are fun, many time you can when they curl and give that long thrash. Either way congrats!
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