Leave my eyes alone!

[WayneChristie]

Well I had a great day, fairly slow but still interesting! I started off with a snag, so I retied my rig and my second cast I hooked a dinker walleye, maybe 9 or 10 inches. Brought it to shore and saw a shadow following behind it. Before I could lift it out of the water a pike decided to eat it, I had the two of them on for a couple minutes before the pike let go, always fun!
released it looking none to worse for wear, and put a new bait out. Pretty much right away I got another walleye, much bigger than the first. I figured Id get a length before a pic, which I did then it broke me off and ran away before I grabbed my phone for a pic. I measured a nice but not too fat 29.5 inches, I was quite happy with that Next cast got me a fat crawdad I introduced to the shore with the sole of my shoe. Got a few more not quite impressive eyes, then a half decent sized one, who broght a friend to shore, again! This one was not much bigger than walter, Im not sure if it was looking to eat it or breed it, who knows, it was a rather nice day out there I managed to grab my phone this time and got some video of it before it left for greener pastures. Next cast Another or same pike grabbed my bait before I could take it away from it so I had to unhook that one and then it happened again the next cast. All in I caught maybe a dozen eyes mostly dinkers, 2 crayfish and 2 pike not all that big either. Ended the outing with a hogzilla of a walleye, I almost had to hook up the car to drag it out of the depths!! The one in the pic
Vid is on my youtube, link is https://youtube.com/shorts/nUbptrzE7Ag
the behemoth is this monster. my arms are still shaking!

[CBintheNorth]

Great video.
Have had it happen with large pike chasing small pike, but never a walleye. Very cool.
Thanks for posting it.

[WayneChristie]

I see it more often in the winter, ice fishing, I even caught a decent walleye that spit out a pike so it goes both ways always fun to watch

[WayneChristie]

I fished the same spot this afternoon, I got a whole bunch of weiner sized walleye , the one in the pic had me confused which was my bait and which the fish! I was using 30 pound mono for a leader, all wee fish. changed up to 10 pound fluoro leader and got 5 or so decent sized fish back to back, then got bit off by pike twice in a row so I put the mono back on, and right back to the dinkers. tells me a lot for sure! when I brought the 26 incher in it had a same sized pike at its size the whole way again!