Big Pike, not bass

[dwmfishin]

Once i got this Mepps Timber doodle, silver and char. I would always use it cause it looked interesting, right? Well, turns out i never caught anything on it. Until... i got really frustrated with it so i tied it on with a leader and trolled one morning with my dad in about eight-ten feet of water. I had let out a ton of line, because the doodle kept resurfacing. so, weve been trolling for about an hour, and he is catching things every once and a while, and i am not, and suddenly i get this HUGE hit! simultaneously the water depth dropped to about twenty five feet. I'm reeling in this huge thing and just getting exhausted! It is so powerful that it swam deep the entire fight, right up to the boat. i actually reeled straight up from the boat's edge about twenty feet of line! meanwhile my dad catches a fish and is reeling, too. He went to the other side of the boat, and i keep reeling. Finally, i could see the fish, and it was gargantuous!!! It's head was as big as mine! and it was a pike, not a muskie. the fish was at the surface of the water, and i was trying to get my dad to look and help out because i was only like fourteen years old, and i tied to get a net, but as soon as my dad tried to look, the fish just turned his head gracefully and swam down deep and busted my leader, in half. faulty leader? possibly. but, that is the biggest fish ive ever "caught". Â*even though i didnt get it in the boat. How depressing huh? i was so bummed. And i keep trying the doodle, and i never catch anything on it. also disappointing! Â*~discgolfer

ps. i know this is a bass site, but still...