Adirondack Pike Bass and Brookies

[NickM221]

Two weeks ago, Luke and I left home early Saturday morning and headed north for a camping and fishing trip at one of my favorite lakes. After a quick stop in Lake George to grab some lunch and break the ice by catching a few panfish and smallies off of a dock, we finished up the 6 hour drive and started packing all of our gear into the canoe to make the trip to the island we’d be spending the next 5 days on. Despite the canoe being loaded down with gear, we couldn’t help but make a few casts on the way to the island. Within 5 minutes of leaving the dock, I hook into a solid pike on one of my homemade baits. Since there was so much stuff piled up in the canoe, Luke couldn’t turn around to snap a pic, but two guys who were watching us net the fish came over to check it out and take a picture for us.



We spent the next three days fishing the lake. Here’s the view from our campsite during the day and in the morning.




It seemed like the cold snap with nightly lows of 20 had the pike going nuts, but the bass fishing, which is usually great, was very slow the first two days. Here are some of the better pike we got. Luke caught two the same size, but they were so fired up that they both jumped clear out of the net.