Libby youth lands big one at Halfway House's Pike Strike

Libby's Kory Peltier hauled in a monster northern pike from Bull Lake June 23 during the Halfway House Bar and Grill Pike Strike tournament. The bruiser weighed 18.6 pounds. (Courtesy photo)

by The Western News
| July 5, 2024 7:00 AM

There are several dozen fewer northern pike swimming Bull Lake after the Halfway House Bar and Grill's Pike Strike tournament.

Held the weekend of June 22-23, the tourney saw 49 anglers enter. They boated 74 fish that weighed a combined 346.4 pounds, an average of 4.68 pounds.

Libby's Kory Peltier caught the largest pike, an 18.6-pound wall-hanger. Wallace Kiele's No. 2 fish was 16 pounds while Duane Condit Jr. landed one that weighed 12.7 pounds.

For combined weight, Anthony Green's fish weighed a total of 34.9 pounds. Peltier's pike weighed 31 pounds and Ben McCann's were 30.4 pounds.