I'm biased towards my home lake of Cayuga. Trout, Bass, Pike, Panfish. Can troll or work shorelines casing. Lots of great little towns with restaurants and places to stay from hotels to camp grounds.
Doesn't have to specifically be a pike trip. I like the idea of chasing musky. Large water is fine we just have had several years of catching tons of pike on champlain. Thinking St Lawrence, or maybe Oneida...