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 Monster Pike for Mads!
09-11-2008
Savage Gear Product Manager and lurefishing maniac, Mads Grosell, had a Saturday he will remember for a while. “I was basically not going fishing this weekend, I was going with my family to Fyn to visit relatives – but I sneaked a basic Jerk and lure kit with me – just in case I got the window to fish a few of the venues I know so well from the past. Faith would have it, that my beloved wife found a fashion clothing outlet that had a big sale and she and my daughters gave me the day of! The weather was perfect and I quickly convinced my good old friend Mogens Winther, that we where going pikefishing. We stopped at the first lake and threw a few cast from the boat dock – that often holds some fine fish and after 30min fishing I had landed 3 fine fish to approx 7kg+ and lost one good fish – all on the new Deviator belly up – so the spirit was high when we left to visit the next lake for a few hours of lurefishing. The small lake holds a good number of 5-8kg pike and quite a lot of jacks – every year at least one 10kg+ fish is landed from the Lake and I have in the past had at least one 12kg+ fish follow the lure to the boat side and at one occasion I even lost what looked like a very big fish where the hooks pulled, when I tried to keep the fish out of the heavy snags the lake has many of. The lake holds many preyfish and especially a good number of eel migrates through the lake system every year – so the pike is usually in good condition. Since the Lake is quite small and the average depth about 1m – we fish of the lake in slow pace twice – it is a brilliant jerkbait venue and the Deviator in 16cm fished on 60cm 0,93mm FC traces is usually deadly on the lake. So was the case on this Saturday where we had many good fish on the Deviator. The lake has an area with a deeper pool, where some springs pumps up fresh water from the underground – here the depth is approx. 2m in an area of 20x40m and when you get a fish from this area, it is normally a bigger specimen. First try over the pool gave absolutely nothing – so we moved back on the shallows, before we took 2. round on the lake. On the second try over the deeper area, I decided to try to fish the pool from the other direction than we most often do – meaning we had to sneak through heavy snags, to reach the pool from a totally different angle. Instinctively I changed my lure in last second, before we entered the big fish zone – to a 30cm 100g Alien Eel Shallow runner in the new Zander colour. I cut of the sidefins, to make the lure sink a bit faster – so I can make a bit more drag and drop presentation. First cast, from the new angle over the pool went a good 15 m further than the strike zone – I retrieved the lure with a few jerks over about 5-10m – when I noticed the water move in the whole area, as if a big fish just shot off some where near by – then the line slacked up a fraction of a second, before it all went solid and I could hook into a real brute fish, that went directly for the snags to our left. I backed hard with the electrical engine – just barely holding the big fish out of the snags. 2-3min of powering away, the big fish gave up and kited to our relief to the right into open water – 1min later she was mine – with no net I chin grabbed her on first attempt! The fish was bigger than any of us expected and both Mogens and I, where a bit shocked over the shear size of the fish – then we realized that neither of us had brought any scales in our light get away kit. We decided to measure up the fish, do the photos and swiftly put her back to hopefully live a few more seasons – no matter what the fish weighed! We measured up the fish to 118cm – it had a head like a German Sheppard and a good girth – including what seemed to be a 2 lbs pike in the belly. It was great to see a majestic creature like that swim back in her snaggy sanctuary. For sure a fish to remember – the time was right – it was my turn again.”

 Herlig bilde!!