Has anyone else ever seen a pike jump onto bank with a fish in its mouth?
Cool! No, I’ve never seen anything that unique. I guess the pike was trying to get a good bite on the trout and sort of forgot or miscalculated where the bank was? I have seen tiger muskie (cross between pike and muskie) going after perch and young bass and it’s an awesome sight. While fishing over a big weed bed I once saw perch skittering high in the water over the top of the weeds. A split second later the tiger muskie would launch after them like a torpedo. A few times the tiger muskie would get the perch while it was out of the water or nearly so. I have seen brown trout go after mice. Well, I should say I’ve never seen a trout take a REAL mouse, but here in the western U.S. we use mouse patterns made from spun deer hair. We work them in cattails and grass in the shallows along stream banks, just before or after sundown in the summer. You can swim them or just let them float — surprising that big fish seem to be waiting for them. When you’re fishing with a mouse pattern, if you h
