Greatest fishing story ever told, Part One

This and the next two blogs will recall what I consider the three greatest fishing stories I have ever heard. As you might imagine, in the 52 years my family has been in the sport fishing business, we've heard some pretty good tales.
One of them I know to be true and the other two I have no reason to believe are not true.
I will present them here in no particular order.
Greatest Fishing Story, Part One
The group who told me this story still comes to camp, in fact, a lot of the photos on this blog were generously donated by them.
As I recall it, they were fishing at camp later in the season, either late-August or September and discovered that northern pike that week were bonkers over white spinner baits. If you were fishing with a white spinner bait you caught fish, lots of fish and especially, big fish.
Fortunately, there were just enough white spinner baits among them for each person to fish with one.
They found one particular bay that had a narrow, shallow entrance that was a particularly great fish producer. There were four boats in the group, I believe, and all four boats went to this bay at the same time. They all stopped to fish the entrance because that is where they had done especially well the day before.
This day was no exception and the group caught several fish at the entrance. One of the anglers, however, had a fish break his line and probably his heart as well because it was the only white spinner bait he had. There was nothing to do but carry on with a different lure as the group moved farther back in the bay. Sure enough, everybody did well except the man without the white spinner bait.
Finally, it was time to head back to camp for supper. As the boats snaked their way back through the narrow entrance, the man without the spinner bait and his fishing partner saw a big fish jump not far from the shore. It sort of tail-walked on the surface, thrashing its head left and right. They saw something fling from the fish's mouth and land right next to the shoreline.
Never taking their eyes from the spot, they went to see what it was.
It was the white spinner bait!
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