Readers — hundreds of readers — weigh in on a longstanding question, posed once again in a June Now & Then story: Should cars be allowed at Pike Place Market?

I fish with 80-pound-test line, and she almost immediately started peeling drag, a lot of it.” The pike continued to strip line while swimming powerfully across the lake bottom.

In a news release, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game described the pike as "a true monster of a fish." The catch breaks the previous record of 40.13 pounds, set at Lower Twin Lake in 2010.