Caught a 3ft Pike in Iowa one time when I was a kid. Came up like I was dragging a log. It didn't start to thrash until it was in the boat. I thought that thing was going to eat me. Scariest dam fish I ever saw(calif born and raised). Started looking around for a nuclear power plant leaking radiation. If I'd of had a gun I would've shot a hole through the bottom of the boat trying to kill that thing.