Record pike bloodies Hayden angler

Landing Idaho’s catch-and-release record northern pike wasn’t painless for Scott Kerns.

“He cut me,” the Hayden resident. “I was bleeding, but that’s OK. We got him back in the water alive.”

Kerns almost didn’t make it to chill on the frozen lake with his ice-fishing buddy Mike Nunemacher on March 3.

“I crashed my pickup on the way there,” he said. “I went home, called my insurance company. It was a bad day. But there was nothing more I could do but go fishing”/Rich Landers, Outdoors. More here.