Fishermans Tale

(dbjts) · (dbjts) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 02-08-2005, 10:23 AM

http://www.wakepics.com/view_single.php?medid=13543

Check out this link, whilst boarding on Windermere this Sunday landed a jump right on top of a huge Pike that had just come up for a breather.
Managed to get it in the boat and get the pictures to prove it.
If you’ve got a better fisherman’s tale than that I need to hear it.
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(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 02-08-2005, 10:43 AM

I heard of the exact same thing happening a few years back. I didn't know they had Pike in Florida. Windermere, FL right?

(dbjts) · (dbjts) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 02-08-2005, 10:46 AM

You dont need that much rubber in Florida
Thats Windermere Cumbria England were God forgot to turn on the heating

(stephan) · (stephan) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 02-08-2005, 10:56 AM

Sorry, working didn't look at the video. Was it a "bash & release"?

(wakeguru) · (wakeguru) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 02-08-2005, 11:13 AM

Holy crap, that's a big pike. You must have knocked the snot out of it.

(toolfan) · (toolfan) **Join Date: Jul 2003** 02-08-2005, 1:28 PM

it may be a pickerel.

(maestro) · (maestro) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 02-08-2005, 1:40 PM

Toolfan - definitely not a pickerel - clearly a pike.

That's pretty sweet!

(wakeguru) · (wakeguru) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 02-09-2005, 5:28 AM

Is Pike not short for Pickerel?

There are Chain Pickerel in my lake and they look pretty much like the Pike - same fin structure and snout, etc, just smaller.

(wakeguru) · (wakeguru) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 02-09-2005, 5:50 AM

Below is a pic of a Chain Pickerel, also known as a River Pike.
I've been fishing and "playing" in Florida lakes all my life and I had no clue these were in there until I saw one in my canal one day, snapped a pic and looked it up on-line. They're fast as heck, eat fish and can grow up to 30 inches although the state record is only 8 lbs...
http://myfwc.com/fishing/fishes/pickerels.html

(eternalshadow) · (eternalshadow) **Join Date: Nov 2001** 02-09-2005, 8:30 AM

Well in Alberta people that talk pickeral really mean walleye. While jackfish or sloughshark is Northern Pike.

(maestro) · (maestro) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 02-09-2005, 8:49 AM

It's the same where I'm from Jeffrey... Pickerel generally refers to walleye...

313productions 02-09-2005, 9:02 AM

Hahah weird you landed on a fish.
I've got a story...but no pics to go along with it. A few years back me and my buddy used to go wakeboarding before school and one morning there was a huge flock of Canadian Geese. So I cut out so I could get a closer look at them and one of them like starting flying towards me. He chased me for sooo long, my buddy actually had to speed the boat up. Anyway I thought that was pretty funny.

(toolfan) · (toolfan) **Join Date: Jul 2003** 02-09-2005, 11:07 AM

im no ichthyologist(and didnt stay at a holiday inn) either, but i did olly a spoonbilled catfish in the river one time. it stunk.

(gary_in_ia) · (gary_in_ia) **Join Date: Jul 2004** 02-09-2005, 5:02 PM

I almost landed a fish while wakesurfing. Felt something flopping against my foot...looked down and it was a fish about 14" or so. Tried to reach down and grab it...but it slid off.