The sun was already casting a glare off of the surface of the wilderness lake that I was about to fish. It didn’t take me long to launch my boat and race to the first of a series of my favourite shallow bays. Before long I was standing at the bow of my boat getting ready to make my first cast of the day. The water was like a sheet of glass. It was almost a shame to disturb it. Casting Lyman Lures for top water pike is one of the most exciting outings an angler can ask for. It’s a fishing trip that gets penciled on my calendar every year. Pike are known for patrolling the shallow bays to sun themselves, feed, and in the spring of the year, they will spend time in the shallows recuperating from the stresses of the spawn. It would be no trouble to drop a jig or cast a spoon and catch pike all day long. However, I love to fish for pike using topwater baits or running baits just below the surface. And my favourite baits to do that with are Lyman Lures. There is nothing like seeing a pike, big or small, break the surface of the water after these wooden plugs. You can actually watch the strike take place and it adds a whole other element to fishing. It was the second week of June and I was slow drifting the edge of a large shallow weedbed. I hooked a pretty pink Lyman Lure to my steel leader and casted the lure as far as I could into the weedbed. I slowly retrieved the lure anticipating a bite from a hungry pike. However, I had no idea what I was in for. Cast after cast brought a hungry pike from the depths below. I fished a variety of weedbeds for six hours and caught and released 72 pike. My record was 14 casts, 14 pike. The pike ranged from four pounds to 15 pounds and every one of them put up a worthy fight. I changed the bottom three feet of my 20 pound line and my steel leader several times throughout the day, but I never changed the pink Lyman Lure. After the lure’s first and only day of fishing for pike, scared and beat-up, I retired the pretty pink Lyman Lure. However, I quickly ordered more and now my tacklebox is never without a wide assortment of Lyman Lures. Wes David