Man that sucks I know how you feel the same thing happened to me but not ice fishing. The crappie fishing was hot then it stopped for 10 mintues not a bite, then bang bobber went flying under and after a 10 mintue fight it broke off. We got a glimpse of it and it was also a pike. But hey, atleast you got a decent fight out of it. Nice report btw, It was exciting not like my plain report went fishing caught this... haha lol