st. lawrence pike

[old man]

got paid to fish yesterday. two young guys from work and i had to go to a meeting in ogdensburg so i took the boat and told 'em i'd take 'em pike fishing after the work stuff. we got to eel bay around 1pm and started casting. i gave 'em both a nickle redeye and i washed a bunch of my muskie baits. we caught 13 pike by 5pm and lost just as many. i only caught two of 'em. half of 'em were dinks,the rest were decent,up to 10 lbs or so. one of the youts lost a real nice one at the boat when it overpowered his zebco 303 and his 8lb mono got on the prop. the bigger fish were all caught at the dropoff into the river. when we'd get into the bay more we were getting all the dinks. i was hot to fish til dark but the other guys felt the need to get back to the wives,one of whom is pregnant,so we quit at dinner time. they'll probly be married longer than i usually am.