How to catch UL pike?

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Caught this beast by "accident" while fishing for cats at the mouth of Benjamin Slough near Lincoln Beach in June of 2019. I was doing a fast, really fast, retrieve of an errant cast of a white bass head when he hit. I was using 30 lb. braid and hooked him in the corner of his mouth or pretty sure he would have sliced through my line. A real drag burner, 39 inches long. The DWR guys were doing some work there that day and I turned the fish over to them.