They were one of my favorite bands back in the 80’s, and I’m still a big fan.
I just found out that they have a YouTube channel with 18 videos.
Wait For Me is still one of my favorite songs ever.
djm
That’s what I thought as well, especially using a sinking line on a fly rod
Pike
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
They dance on the surface among the flies.Or move, stunned by their own grandeur,
Over a bed of emerald, silhouette
Of submarine delicacy and horror.
A hundred feet long in their world.In ponds, under the heat-struck lily pads-
Gloom of their stillness:
Logged on last year’s black leaves, watching upwards.
Or hung in an amber cavern of weedsThe jaws’ hooked clamp and fangs
Not to be changed at this date:
A life subdued to its instrument;
The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals.Three we kept behind glass,
Jungled in weed: three inches, four,
And four and a half: red fry to them-
Suddenly there were two. Finally oneWith a sag belly and the grin it was born with.
And indeed they spare nobody.
Two, six pounds each, over two feet long
High and dry and dead in the willow-herb-One jammed past its gills down the other’s gullet:
The outside eye stared: as a vice locks-
The same iron in this eye
Though its film shrank in death.A pond I fished, fifty yards across,
Whose lilies and muscular tench
Had outlasted every visible stone
Of the monastery that planted them-Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England. It held
Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old
That past nightfall I dared not castBut silently cast and fished
With the hair frozen on my head
For what might move, for what eye might move.
The still splashes on the dark pond,Owls hushing the floating woods
Frail on my ear against the dream
Darkness beneath night’s darkness had freed,
That rose slowly toward me, watching.Ted Hughes
9 weight flyrod, floating line, 6" bite leader, foam popper with a little bit of flash in the tail, fast two handed retrieve, do not not stop on the retrieve even after the strike. Follow Issac Walton’s recipe for dinner. 
No kidding on the bite leader. These things will chomp through anything made of plastic. Muskies are even worse as far as wear and tear on equipment goes.
djm
I have a popper that has caught at least ten muskies, but often the bite leader is dead after just one strike. I can’t tell you how many times I have lost a fish after stopping the retrieve during the strike including a fish than was 40+", likely a fly rod record for WI at the time. It wouldn’t be so bad except I got him right up to the boat before he spooked. The wife helps me relive it every muskie trip we take. 
They’ll bite on the surface?? I thought they were a down deep fish, hence the sinking line?
Real fisherman don’t use wire leaders. 
Spring and fall they will hit on the surface, muskie in rivers will often hit on the surface in the evenings too, as will walleye. Strike zones in the spring and fall can be as great as ten to twelve feet, really quite dramatic. You need to have a good double-haul down though to get the distance you need. We fish for pickerel here in Va in February on the surface.
Real fisherman don’t use wire leaders.
Real fishermen don’t use bait. Even Dame Juliana Berners suggests using a good flexible steel leader for pike in her "The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle.‘’…Ok, I’m making that up.
My double haul sucks, never got the one- two… pull thing down to make it work. I sometimes try fly casting in the surf with an 8 wt, but I really need to work on double-hauling.
My wife has this little rocking back and forth dance she does when casting, looks completely goofy, so what if she casts better than me. But double hauling is fun and well worth the effort. For surf we usually go with our long distance casting rigs as we have to get 300’+ out.
This is BAD- I can almost get 100 ft with my 8 wt when surf casting into the wind <SIGH…300ft>
Wait! That’s with a casting rod and reel with a two to three oz lure, not a fly rod! I’m no Joan Wulff, let me tell you. I can cast about 130-150’ with my nine weight as can my wife who is all of 5’1" in wading boots. That’s a lot of weight for her but her technique is just so much better than mine, so my arm is often dead at the end of the day when she can still sling them out there. Have you tried using a shooting head just to give you a little more weight to feel?
Never heard of ‘em before. You sure opened up a can o’ worms, though. There’s nothin’ like a bunch o’ fishermen sittin’ ‘round swappin’ lies 'bout the one that got away.
I don’t feel bad, NOW! I have a shooting head loaded on one of the cassettes <FIND IT, Find it somewhere> but I haven’t had a chance to use it. I usually use a wooly bugger in the surf or one of those crab flys with some silver flash for the arms.