Immediately after arriving at one of my key fishing spots on the Looking Glass, I spotted a nice two-foot pike in one of the holes down by the footbridge at the east end of Riverfront Park. I quickly put a sucker on my hook and cast out to the fish. The struggling minnow quickly caught the pike's attention, and the pike moved over and slurped it into his jaws. The fight was on! The pike, being 25 inches, fought very hard and did lots of headshakes and jumps. It was a great fight.
After fishing at Riverfront Park for about an hour, I decided to try a place a friend of mine recommended- McGuire Park, down by the DeWitt Area Fire and Rescue station. I can't thank him enough! While walking the river, I cast my Rapala husky jerk in to slack water behind a brush pile. My lure was met by a hungry, 30-inch pike. I had the pike on for about 30 seconds, but then he threw the hook. But I didn't give up. I cast back to the area where a lost him, with a different presentation: a sucker on a harness. Within a couple of minutes, I had my second chance! This pike put up, by far, the best fight of any pike I've had in 2014- which doesn't take much, given how things have been going.
Fishing has been tough on the Looking Glass for pike this year, but I'm glad today that I was able to break the ice!
