Brandon Simmons pulls a pike out of the Baltic on a monochromatic November day. He describes the pike, his first, as a cross between a puma and a piranha. "Releasing the toothy creature is like diffusing a bomb: it snapped its jaws at me enough to earn my respect." Brandon, owner & operator of Trout School, employs G3 Guide Stockingfoots and a well-seasoned Freestone Jacket layered above the remarkable RiverTek Top to insulate himself from the brutal Scandinavian weather.