Putin's big northern pike....

[panfisher]

Perhaps ya'll have seen about the big northern Vladimir Putin, Russian president caught a week or so ago. Seems most think it was staged or are skeptical. Nice fish anyway..... They do get big on the eurasian continent. Just google "Putin's big pike"....supposedly 44-46lbs..love to catch one here like that!

[Sk8man]

I'm willing to bet that it was "staged". That guy is an ego maniac and is an old school KGB dude and has the "little man syndrome" thinking the macho image and puffing himself up is proof that he is "macho man"  and is the way to impress the world (how many other world leaders take their shirts off and flex their muscles for pics?

[carpedium]

 

I think these guys are trying to say it wasn't that big. Still a really nice fish though.

Edited August 8, 2013 by carpedium