solopaddler

Looks like a couple of wolverines nesting just above your eyes.

You're talking eyebrows here right Doug? They are pretty luxurious.

Good gawd man, your eyebrows are gigantic.

Spoons in general are my favourite lure for pike, hands down! The Dardevle's are a standard, got dozens of the 1oz models in my basement in a variety of colours. I remember years ago guiding at Kesagami, the 1oz Red and Yellow weedless Daredevle was lethal. It outfished everything.. The small Daredevle Imps are still a favourite of mine for speckles, great lures. So far this winter I've been stockpiling, and tweaking, a whole bunch of my favourite spoons. Ordered a whole whack of chrome coloured 11/8oz Johnson Silver Minnows. Painted them with a translucent automotive "black chrome" finish. Man do they look deadly! Then I added a black skirt to bulk them up a bit (slows the drop in shallow water) and a trailer, and VOILA, an oversized pike slaying Moss Boss. In addition I just got a shipment of 41/2" Doctor spoons and KB spoons in a variety of cool colours. For me at least there are no better spoons for pike!(I think they've been around longer than Daredevles as well). A lot of the areas I fish are weedy so I've replaced the stock trebles with 2/0 weedless trebles made by Mustad. Can't wait to fish those puppies. As well I have a box of salmon spoons in a host of wild colours that pike seem to love. The beauty of the salmon spoons is they're light enough that you can flutter them over the tops of the weeds. Something that's hard to do with a standard spoon... Another old standbye that I stocked up on recently is the 41/2" Lucky Strike Half Wave. Great, great lure. I've actually painted some of my silver Doctor spoons with the same Half Wave patern: white on one side with a series od red slashes.. They'll be lethal too. Got a bit sidetracked here it seems, but I do love my spoons.

Stuff like that happens all the time. Big Jim looked pissed though. Two summers ago I was on a back lake with my then 5 year old daughter. She caught a nice pike and I laid my rod down to deal with it. Of course a 3lb smallie grabbed my jig and dragged my $400 rod/reel overboard. It sank straight down to a shelf about 15' below me. Then started being dragged by the bass into this huge 35' hole. I threw my daughters pike away and without thinking--just reacting, dove overboard to catch my rod before it was pulled into the abyss. I just grabbed it in time. When I did the bass went airborne and I was actually fighting it underwater. Lipped it beside the boat with one arm around the gunnel. Definitely a memorable fish. My little girl tells everyone "Daddy dives in after the fish!!!"

Hmmmm...I wouldn't be so sure. Anyone want to place a wager that he was serious?

That was awesome dude, loved it!

Personally I'd love to get out of the city, fish or no fish. Looks like a great time.

The expression "digging your own grave" pops to mind.

Right on, have fun with it!

Yep that was the boat we saw. Was a nice day to be out wasn't it?

HAHAHA! Gotta love beer goggles.

Nice reel bud. I'm guessing it'll get a good workout May 4-8? What rod will you put it on?

If I were you I wouldn't be bumping this thread to the top.

My guess is no one goes to Afghanistan on holliday. There's probably more going on here that we'll never know.

This is by far the weirdest post I've ever seen.

Gorgeous clean looking lakers!

Incredible Tyler, just incredible!

There's definitely some truth to that.

So....how 'bout them Leafs?

Prayers sent your way Ryan. Please keep us updated.

That really helped a lot. For some reason I'm picturing Borat.

Could you translate that please?

Uh oh. We're screwed.

Great stuff Emil, very nice to see.