I returned to the place of last week's monster encounter that ended with a broken line. This time I had minnows. And a bag full of wire leaders =). Some hammer handle pike seemed to be the culprit. The hook looks deep in the last fish, but I unhooked him just fine. No blood. Hooray for 12" hemostats! And as I was poking my minnow through the weeds, I felt my line go tight. I fed the fish some line before setting, and I thought I had hooked a nice bass until it started planing across the surface of the water... it was a crappie! At 13", this was my personal best Ontario-caught black crappie (the monsters we found in Florida were a whole different ball game).