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Ok here is a little story about my son's tropy 44" Nothern caught last week.
Were were base camping on Sturgeon Lake and fishing near Scripture Island. It was very cool, windy and raining off and on, at times raining hard and at times no rain at all. I had just caught a 20" walleye on a troll crossing a rocky point. It had an old battle scar near it's tail that was well healed. It was mid-afternoon so I put it on the stringer to save for dinner. My stringer is just a long piece of para-cord with a caribiner tied to the end. I slit the lower jaw of the fish and stick the caribiner through. It will hold about 3 medium sized walleyes. The fish was securely trailing behind the canoe, and we decided to make another trolling pass on the rocky point. I heard a loud splash. I thought it was the Walleye getting a bit fiesty. Looking into the water I saw, about 4 feet down, there was a huge northern with my dinner in its mouth. It was clamped on pretty good, I could see the head of the walleye sticking out one side of the jaw and the tail sticking out the other. I grabbed the para-cord and pulled the pike to the surface. I was tempted the try to reach down and grab it, when I heard my son say "NO Dad, DONT!" I battled with the pike for about 30 seconds, holdin on to the cord, before he let go. It pulled the back end of the canoe around, quite a bit as we both were tugging back and forth on the cord.
Dan started to throw some big baits, trying to catch it, as he suspected it was still hanging around looking for a meal. He tried the F18 FT Rapala, that he'd caught his 42" on the day before, then the PIG, then the Suick. That did it! He hooked the fish and battled it for about 25 min., while I paddled to the shoreline. He jumped out of the canoe and unhooked it for this photo. We made sure to revive it thoroughly and it swam away freely.
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