GW,
Thanks for the offer. My wife has enough of my projects to look after in my absence. I won't be home for another month, so I'll save her the grief. We are on our last set of peeps for the season anyway. Next spring though, it's definitely number one on my list. Probably just for the hens first, but we'll see.
Oldconsv,
Thanks for your contribution about the pike. I wonder how easy they are to find in my neck of the woods (n. central NC). I'm sure they're here, but I've never seen them. Then again, I've only been here a year and only fishing twice since then.
