MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Pike are an amazing fish to catch and I have never fished for them by fly. I used to catch little yellow perch and small pan fish in the morning and hook them up with 00 hooks and 4inch bobbers and at dusk anchor the boat along where East Creek opened up into Lake Champlain. It was very marshy along the edges of the creek out to the mouth so you put em right on the edge and just wait with bail s open. Oh did I mention 20lbs test was a minimum???
We pulled channel cats up to 60 lbs out of there and I have seen pike over 30 inches come out. I never managed to land any of the big ones though. Sadly.....
I kind of miss some of what the big lake had to offer.
I have landed Pike on a fly but nothing like these monsters . I think my biggest was a 25 inch caught on the Missouri river about 10 years ago. I really should try to go after them 36 plus fish I have seen in Pactola lake in the spring. That would be fun for sure.
i have the spot to possibly hook into a 30+" pike and have tried mostly spinning gear a few times on the flies i did mangage a few smaller ones but have hit that magical day when all the biggens are hungry i want to get up there in the next couple of weeks in my float tube or canoe to give a good try i bet it may be good .... usually i am too busy with trout but would take a break to land a 10+ lb pike on the fly 
To Hell with the 2 weight for those fish, 9 weight Redington Predator 
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was
cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words,
and some of the words are theirs.