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[musky-man]

Hit up Cheshire yesterday with pizzamaker. Focused around the islands with with big pondies and some medium shiners. Super slow all day with one decent bass getting iced by pm. I took a solo trip to the bow today. Fished around 7to 10 fow with big pondies.some dead some alive. All steel. Even with the stained water I kept my baits 2 1/2-3ft off bottom resulting in one decent pike right off the batt followed by a few slow hours and then constant flags producing 4, 30 inch range pike in total. It was slippery as hell out there when the snow started flying , hopefully anyone who was out today didnt take a bad spill, can make for a very serious situation really quickly. Howd everyone else do today?

[Jschumacher]

WOW 4 pike day on the Ox Slow is a great day. Congrats

[flyfish413]

WOW 4 pike day on the Ox Slow is a great day. Congrats

Man you are not kidding. To see 4 pike iced between every group out there would be a good day, let alone 4 by one crew. Nice job!

[musky-man]

Certainly wasnt a typical day at the bow lol but I had a feeling the bite would be on with that nasty weather rolling thro

[SkunkLuvver]

That’s an unbelievable day for that place. Couple years ago I fished it pretty hard and caught everything except a pike.

Come ice out I bring my GF there in a canoe and she casually tosses out a lip bait and goes tight on the second crank. She gets it close and says “it’s a big pickerel” and I’m sitting there with my head in my hand muttering “no it’s not”.

Still holding bitterness on that one.

She didn’t really know what a pike was or why it was special.

Shoulda had her there for ice season.

[musky-man]

Lol good story skunkluv,  you never kno what your going to get as soon as your line hits the water there. I fished there pretty regularly last 2 season with hardly any pike on the ice. I was using optimal pike bait tho. Took it more seriously this year and havnt been disappointed.

[MASS_pike]

I have lived very close to the oxbow for a long time and fish it often.  4 pike in one day is indeed a great outing there, congrats Musky!  While it can mostly be quite slow when pike fishing there, in my years I have experienced a range catching 10 in one day to not even having a single bite in an entire season.  The right bait is key, but even more so is persistance.  I think most regulars here know that about pike fishing

[Rangerboats391]

that's a amazing day for that place, nic ework