Jayden+Schmitz+Myth



The Giant Pike My Myth that I'm choosing is the Giant Pike and there are many urban legends based around many lakes of the US. The natives would tell their children this to keep them from going off and swimming in deep water or going places that they shouldn't because the parents are just trying to look out for their children because they don't want them going places they don't know. The images that I will need to take for this project would be a lot of pictures of water and maybe a couple of my older photos of my Northerns that I caught in the past. I would also need to use photoshop to mend the select few photos together to recreate the myth. What I'm aiming for is to persuade people in believing that there really is one Norther Pike out there that is a monster for all we know he could be lurking in the depths unknown in them cold northern waters. From experience, I have seen some pretty big Pike in my Life, and the biggest that I have ever got is a 40in Northern and i have heard that some people have been pulling out 50s through the ice or off a pole summer fishing in the midst of summer out in the middle of nowhere in Canadian lakes all the time. This topic is interesting to me because I love to fish and I thought that it would be fun to play around with the idea of a Giant Pike. The source that I'm basing this off of is an Indian story " Tales from Temagami - Land of Deep Water" and the story is that a boy shot his arrow into a lake and it was just floating there so he went to fetch it, and his grandmother told him not to swim in deep waters. But the boy thought that it was okay top go and get it ignoring his grandmothers advice and the next thing he knows is that a Giant pike came up and ate him. The tribe that he belonged to was a fishing tribe and his grandmother was going out to check the nets and she had the giant pike in it so she wrestled it to shore and opened him up and there was her grandson in his belly. http://temagami.nativeweb.org/tale-giant-pike.html.