Glad you were able to spend the day on the water and have success.

Thanks for the report. I’m a newbie to the sight. Please Tell me about AJ. Respectfully, Steve

Awesome fish! I need to get to a pike fishery one day!

Hello Mark (AJ's dad), great to read your post from Monday and get word that you are back in the saddle! After reading a great many of your posts from the last several years (at all hours of the day or night), I was afraid that you had disappeared from NW fishing reports.... I share this only because I have so greatly enjoyed your detailed and very informative reports and must say that they have served as a great relief and verbal elixir to justify 6 months of apartment living in CDA after my wife and I moved here last summer from SW Montana. I haven't fished for pike since childhood when my uncle took my brothers and I up to the Boundary Waters on a couple of summer canoe trips, but have always found them to be a fascinating game fish well worth the time and effort that you have described so frequently for those of us blessed to live near waters that hold them! They are a remarkable predator!
That said, thanks for taking the time on so many occasions to share your expeditions with those of us who marvel at your success in catching and returning these remarkable monstrrs to the watery depths of Lake Coeur d'Alene - God willing, I will look forward to one day crossing paths with you out on that magnificent body of water. Thanks again for your posts, Mike