i use the bare hand behind the gill plates method to secure the fish, then under the jaw to lift/hold/pictures.  the gill rakers are pretty terrible on those big fish so the backs of your fingers usually get maimed bare handed, but thats life. our biggest pike have come out of the pickeral narrows while trolling past the point before the entrance to the maria portage. theres a big cabbage weedbed there in 10-15 ft of water. otherwise we pick up nice pike will jigging for walleyes on mid lake structure.

i think im going to target pike a bit more this next trip. i have a pretty large arsenal of muskie baits (i live in wisconsin) so ill bring a few along with my muskie rod. some depth raiders trolled around some of the big islands on oriana might pick up a few lake trout also!