This nice 33 inch pike caught by my friend Mike is not the subject of the title although she was released and lurks the waters of CWL poised to give someone else a thrilling fight. The one that got away was the lucky lure that caught her.You see, I had caught a 36 inch pike twenty minutes earlier. That fish had a lure hooked to the outside of his mouth. The lure was a red-eyed shad - a lure used extensively by our friend George who always catches fish.
Soon after I landed my fish Mike stops by and I hand him the lure to try. He catches this pike on the first cast.
A few minutes later George called. Sure enough, George had lost his lure that morning to my pike. Mike told George he was not getting his lure back - George laughed.
Mike had phenomenal luck with George's lure catching 3 more pike over 30 inches in two weeks. But alas the red-eyed shad finally got away. "Lost it on rocks somewhere near shore" is all Mike would reveal - George laughed.
We'll see who finds it.
Randy Budreau