Scary??  I don't know; I'm thinking I could get into a challenge from a fish that weighed more than my canoe.  Of course, when the big fish is on, typically it is the OTHER guy in the canoe (IF there IS another guy) that gets to do the handling of that fish.

Makes me mindful of that scene in "Jeremiah Johnson" where the Will Geer character tells Jeremiah something like, "I catch'em & you clean'em"... just before he lures the live grizzly bear into his cabin to be "skinned & cleaned".

Anyway, I'd be OK with the "catching" part re: such a pike... depending upon how many people there were in my canoe.

Jimbo   8-)