mpeebles wrote on Apr 11^th, 2019 at 2:02pm:

Forgot something about that 56" northern, or was it the 52 incher? Anyway that northern had a hookless pink daredevil attached to a steel leader and about a foot of 80# test Fire Line firmly clenched in it's mouth .   It also had an Underwater Canadian Passport with it.   Never did figure out what that was all about. Anything you care to share about that Marten?

I think your big pike is the one that capsized my canoe up in WCPP. I had a nice eating size Walleye in the bucket but was starving so dangled the hot pink Dardevle one more time over the water. A 19 inch Walleye came hurtling up and swallowed the lure. I was after a frying size fish so  ushered the big female out over the water so it could cough up the hookless lure and be on its way. Imagine my fright when a 46 inch pike came up and tail walked until it had inhaled my Walleye head first. This was a few years ago and it must have grown fast to be so big when your dog retrieved it to get you the duck. The 80 pound test line saved me a lot of lost lures over the years but this time the choice backfired. The large pike hit the water and headed south. My canoe was pointed east and because the drag was stuck it was able to pull the canoe over. The force of its pull took me away from the canoe. The good news was I had on my tricked out survivors life vest.The bad news was that when I got yanked away from the canoe the heavy line tangled around my neck. I quickly pulled back on the line and was able get a wrap of it around my left hand. The fish accelerated so I thrust my legs forward to gain resistance. Wrong move! Next thing I know I am barefoot waterskiing and heading south. With the line cutting into my left hand I pulled the knife out of the sheath and cut the line.