Seth Pearson smiles while holding up a 3.6-foot-long pike he pulled out of Little Bay de Noc on Tuesday, March 3. (Courtesy photo)

DELTA COUNTY — A lifelong angler fishing on Little Bay de Noc for the first time caught a whopper of a pike this week.

On Tuesday, Seth Pearson, age 44, of Webster, Wis. pulled a 43.5-inch-long northern pike (Esox lucius) from beneath the ice on the northern part of the bay near Vagabond Resort, which is located on the Stonington Peninsula about five miles south of Rapid River.

“(I’ve) been fishing my whole life,” said Pearson, but noted this was his first time fishing in the U.P. “I fish Wisconsin and a couple Canadian trips a year.”

Pearson’s favorite target species is walleye, and he loves to tip-up fish, he shared.

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