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<p>Dan Ries, who works at Kootenai Medical Center, recently caught this 25-pound, 43-inch northern pike on the Pend Oreille River. It was caught with a white Booya spinner bait. He was fishing for bass.</p>

<p>Dan Ries, who works at Kootenai Medical Center, recently caught this 25-pound, 43-inch northern pike on the Pend Oreille River. It was caught with a white Booya spinner bait. He was fishing for bass.</p>

September 2, 2010

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River monsters
September 2, 2010 9 p.m.

River monsters

Northern pike popular among many anglers

They call them river monsters, these carnivorous dwellers of the weedy depths of area lakes and rivers. They are Esox lucius, also known as northern pike.