Angler pulls in husky northern pike
Keith Kinnaird News Editor | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 9 months AGO
<p>Dave DeMers displays the 33-pound pike he caught on Lake Pend Oreille. (Photo courtesy KEITH SNYDER)</p>
CLARK FORK — A Bonner County angler hauled in a massive northern pike Tuesday while fishing for trout on Lake Pend Oreille near the mouth of the Clark Fork River.
The pike tipped the scales at 33 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 45 inches long.
Hope Peninsula resident Dave DeMers was fishing for German brown trout and Mackinaw when he felt something jostle his bait.
“These fish are really hitting light,” DeMers recalled thinking to himself.
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