Kalamojakka anyone? We use the pike for it, great meal.
Anyways, here is my 20lber I caught shore fishing two summers ago. Neat way of fishing too. You take a bait-casting reel with 20lb+ line on it. A medium/heavy rod, and a leader, sinker, and trebel hook, and a cisco, a relative of the hering. Anyways, you string the leader through the frozen cisco and attach it to your line, with the treble hooked on the end of the leader. You take a boat and pull the bait out deep into the lake while someone on shore holds the rod so no mishaps take place. You drop it down and let it sink to the bottom. You set the rod down on shore, tie it off, leave the bail loose and put a piece of tape on the line, next to the rod. If a fish takes the bait, the line will go out, thus pulling the tape out. You sit and play cards, drink, eat, whatever while you are watching your rod. (Canadian rules say you have to be within a certain distance of your line, so we just set them up very close to camp, to avoid any law breaking.)
Anyways, here is my pike I caught doing the above method.
It was too pretty, and awesome to keep, so we set it back after measuring it, this is a replica made from the measurements and pictures of the fish.
