All quiet on the Mansfield front

[imsafanct]

Here goes nothing!

http://rs429.pbsrc.com/albums/qq15/imsafanct/10-19-14%20ct%20river%20eric4_zpsazvcsr3w.jpg~c100

[lowaccord66]

Looks like you grabbed the HTML link.  Not sure if it shows for you (I am always using my phone to post) but there should be an option to grab the "IMG" link.

I was able to copy and paste the link to see what was a thick pike!  Nice work!

[imsafanct]

I'll figure it out. I don't see that actual photo either; just the link. What a bizarre expression on my face!

I didn't measure it. I weighed it with a Boga, which I didn't know at the time could hurt the fish. I will never Boga a pike by the bottom jaw again. According to the Boga she weighed 14lbs., which equates to roughly 37" on the length to weight charts online.

-Eric 

[imsafanct]

Got it! This was Bill's 8 pounder from earlier that same day.

[imsafanct]

I like this one better...at least I'm smiling

[bug-chazer]

Nice fish congrats

[lowaccord66]

Sweet dude!  The river holds some nice pike!  So they question remains whats up with your infliction with good ole mansfield? 

[imsafanct]

I've been asking myself that same question ever since I posted the first photo...

Low, if u had to guess at the length or weight of the pike in the photo you posted, how big would u say it was? The more I look at the picture, the larger the fish looks.

-Eric

[lowaccord66]

That is over 25#s for sure but not sure on the length. Its the second one of that size I've landed from that water for someone else.  4th one over 20# I've seen in 4 years there personally.

[imsafanct]

Did you say he got that fish vertically jigging a deep weed edge, Detroit River-style?

-Eric

[imsafanct]

Low, here's a stupid question...You ice fish, right? Do you primarily ice fish for pike? If so, where do you normally ice fish for them?

-Eric

[lowaccord66]

I do ice fish for them and up until last year when I started to fall in love with Lake George they were all I fished for.  I fish for them all over now but a couple seasons back I did a lot of time in Western Mass and CT.  I normally hit the lake that bug one came from but its tough.  I logged a few hundred hours for a 11 lber!  Then the year before last I saw the kid next to me get a 21....my buddys first pike ever was from the same lake a couple years before it was 25 pounds on the boga 45" long 25" girth!