It was a cloudy afternoon in late June when I finally woke up. I was still sleepy after a very late night out with my buddies. While sipping my coffee I tried thinking of something that would occupy my time instead of getting into mischief. Since the sun wasn't shining, going for a swim was out of the question. It wasn't raining either so I phoned JB and told him that it was a perfect day for pike fishing up in Kuik Slough. Sure enough he agreed to go on the trip with his boat. I got ready and waited down on the beach for him to pick me up. As JB was coming up the river I noticed that he had brought Joe-Joe and Wee-gee along for company. Since we needed a slave or two on our trip, I figured that it would be O.K.

While we were on our way toward the spot where Leslie Hunter's cabin is located we saw a bear skin on a big rock. JB, Joe, and I knew that it was just a bear skin but Wee-gee thought that it was a live bear. We told Wee-gee to get his gun ready, and it was so funny watching him get excited over that bear skin. But as we got closer to it Wee-gee discovered that it was just a bearskin. When we got to our fishing area near Leslie's cabin I watched the other guys throw their first casts. When Joe caught the first pike I became convinced there were fish there and I started casting too. My first cast I almost got a monster pike but it saw me moving on the bank. It must have swum to the deep part after that because I didn't see it again. Then we boarded the boat and anchored out about 50 yards from shore. It was then when we started to catch pike like heck. Almost every cast we would get a big one.

Our successes slowed down after a while but Wee-gee and I were still lucking out because we had the best lures. I got both the largest and the smallest pike which made the trip good for me. About an hour later though we got bored, so we counted our fish and started back for home. We counted 15 big pike and one little one.

The trip home was fun because Wee-gee, Joe, and I were shooting at baby ducks and sea gulls with my .22 rifle. We didn't get anything though because my scope wasn't sighted in very well.