Pike Pictures

Here are just a few of the sights I've seen while chasing monster pike. Click on each picture to see a larger high-resolution image.

1. Cow and calf moose

2. Mary with a nice pike from Alaska

3. Jack with a nice pike from the Taltson river

4.Landing a monster pike in the cradle

 5. Caught on the Taltson River, fishing out of Eric Beck's Aurora Nights Lodge

 6. Jack talking pike fishing with Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman at Milton Lake, Saskatchewan.

 7. See what this poor woman has to put up with? Mary will fish in any weather!

 8. Another bruiser from the upper Taltson River.

 9. Good friend, Crystal Panfil, with a nice one, fishing out of Laker's Unlimited camp on Lake Athabasca.

 10. Close friend, John Cleveland of Eppinger with a nice lake trout on Lake Athabasca

 
 11. Mary hoists a 25-pounder on Lake Athabasca. We were fishing out of Laker's Unlimited's Spring Bay camp.

 

 12. Jack with a nice one on Nueltin Lake

 13. One of the hazards of fishing. Mary yanked this out seconds later.

 14. Casting at Cat Island on the Taltson River. See the cat in the rock off my left elbow?

15. Mary with a big Taltson pike right before a storm hit.

16. I do not know the scientific name, but we call these Hair Snakes. It looks like a piece of fishing line, but it's alive!

17. A huge pike from the Taltson. Check out the head on this beast!

18. My friend Sam O'Reilly releasing a monster pike on the Taltson.

19. I don't recommend this, but when the lake is still frozen, we do our best to get after them!

20. Releasing a leech-caught monster on Lac La Martre.