“My pike can kick your cuda’s butt any day.”
Pike are bad thats for sure, grew up with them.
I’ve seen cuda bite a 5 foot king in half with one bite.
Pike and cuda appear to be very similar fish with very similar behaviors. I know pike will often strike right at the edge of the boat and I kind of wonder if that’s what happened here.
My wife and I were diving off Maui doing underwater photography when she came face to face with a Barracuda at least as long as she was. She snapped a quick picture and raced away as fast as she could. We told the owners of the dive shop who scoffed at her story saying it was probably a Mackerel. She showed up an hour later photo in hand and the guy’s jaw drop. We still laugh at that.