Fishing Today but no Northern Pike Caught

Well, I went down to the local lake today. It is just a few miles down the road so I thought I would give it a try. The guy who owns it stocks a bunch of weird fish for such a small pond. There are northern pike, carp, bass, crappie, grass carp, channel cats, and almost any other kind of fish you can get. I guess he likes to mix it up.

Anyway, I was trying to land this huge northern pike that has been in there for a few years now. I bet he is close to 40 inches. No luck with him today, but there was a lot of other action. The crappies were pounding this little spinner I had and the bass loved it too. Got about a dozen or so total in just a bit over an hour. The lake is not huge maybe 3 acres, but contains tons of fish due to it being fertile.

While it was not a great northern pike fishing day, it still was fun. Sometimes it is less boring catching many than waiting around to catch one big one. I also had a grass carp hooked, but he ran into the lure by accident and quickly got unhooked since it was in his side. That guy is like 40 lbs so I doubt I would have landed him anyway.

Oh well, maybe next time.