text:  Let me see. As long as they're willing to bite, right? As long as they're willing to bite, that's right. Well, it takes a while. I mean, you've got to go through a whole lot of pickerel to get to a northern pike, that's for sure. Absolutely. As musky as a fish of 1,000 casts, the pike might be a fish of 500 casts. Yep.