08-04-2004, 04:30 PM
I also had a slower pike season at these two lakes, but I don't think pike are fished out by a long shot. At Spinney last October I was able to take my one man pontoon out on a dead calm mostly cloudy day. I noticed over twenty pike basking around weed columns from 1 to 3 feet down in 10 to 20 feet of water. Over half of these pike were large 10 of them were around 40" and I noticed two giants that literally starterled me as I almost ran directly over them, both were over 45" and in between 25 and 30 pounds. I was able to get close to these fish because I have a very quite trolling motor. I do think that the number of smaller pike at Spinney has been greatly reduced, but they reproduce so well at these lakes I think they'll be fine.
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