Connecticut Angler Breaks 40-Year-Old State Record with Massive Northern Pike Catch

   An evening of kayak fishing with the family turned into a record evening for a Connecticut Barkhamsted woman, Leslie Slater. I was jigging a Rooster Tail for trout when all of a sudden I had a huge hit, Slater recalls. It pulled hard right to the bottom. It almost broke my pole in half. Then with all of the dead weight, I thought that I had lost the fish and snagged the bottom. It wasn’t the bottom she was snagged on. It was a 46 inch-long, 29.0-pound Northern Pike. Slater... READ MORE