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Location: Palm Coast, FL | I just got an email of a large northern pike. It said it was caught in Rainy Lake. Size of 54" long and weighed 44lbs. Anyone here of this fish or know anything about it? I will post a picture later. |
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| this picture has been floating around the internet boards/emails for months. I have also heard it was not Rainy Lake. |
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|  Not the Danish fish again.I don't know who posted that from Rainy originally,but he's laughing his butt off by now. |
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Location: lansing, il | the most famous fish posted on the net on musky sites of the year, and it isnt even a musky! hahahahaha my uncles cousins friends dads brother caught it!!! |
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| cant we just say it was caught in florida??? i mean there saying theres alligaters in the nothwest now,go figure!!!!!! i did see that fish a few months ago on here,can you say miracle grow???!!! |
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Location: Minnesota | Holland i think |
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Location: Norway | If it is this one: http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/4396/11097_s.jpg its from holland yes. Another picture of this, was used in the boat forums here, when someone asked what boat is used... or something.
http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/4396/11098_s.jpg
Michael
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Not from Holland, but from Sweden |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | There's an article in the most recent Esox Angler with the facts on this fish.
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| All I want to know is what did that thing EAT?? |
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| esoxaddict - 10/4/2006 2:50 PM
All I want to know is what did that thing EAT??
http://sportsfiske.nu/foto/arkiv/4396/11098_s.jpg |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | It Looks like it ate everything in the lake what a hog!!!! Kingfisher |
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Location: Norway | MikeHulbert - 10/4/2006 1:22 PM
Not from Holland, but from Sweden
According to articles, its Holland. Anyway, its probably the nicest pike, or fish Ive ever seen!
Michael
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Location: Minnesota | Yaaa think that was a catch and release fish? I know I would put it back! Could not afford a real or fake mount of something that big. Maybe a key chain??? |
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Location: Oregon | I have always found it odd how "snakey" pike are. The fish in this pic looks like it has no skeletal structure, no support. If you hold an equally sized salmon, tarpon, tuna, whatever, they don't bend like a length of jello, lol...really weird!
Great picture, huge fish!
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I can't believe that fish ONLY weighed 43 #'s.What a pic of a monster Pike.I sure see why the Europeans are into Pike fishing,like we are with Muskies. |
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| That's just simply an awesome fish! No matter how you look at it...
Edited by MACK 10/4/2006 6:24 PM
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Location: Minnesota | I had those pictures on my website for a few weeks and I got some of the funniest emails telling me where it really came from. From Iowa to Iraq to Ireland (and other places that do not begin with "I")... |
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Location: Norway | Sab - 10/4/2006 5:24 PM
I can't believe that fish ONLY weighed 43 #'s.What a pic of a monster Pike.I sure see why the Europeans are into Pike fishing,like we are with Muskies.
Also remember, we dont have Muskies
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| Pikopath - 10/5/2006 1:23 AM
Sab - 10/4/2006 5:24 PM
I can't believe that fish ONLY weighed 43 #'s.What a pic of a monster Pike.I sure see why the Europeans are into Pike fishing,like we are with Muskies.
Also remember, we dont have Muskies
Michael
Stock em.What I really found interesting on your Pike was their ability over generations to adapt to waters with a high salt mixture that would kill our Pike. |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | Had one of those hook on webster the other day twice the size of it, man webster sure has some big pike in the lake, wow......they taste good too.....j/k hell of a fish |
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Location: Norway | Hehe, sure, stock muskies... The only fish that are stocked here is trout, KILL ALL THE PIKE!!! so we can overcrowd another lake with 1lbs trout 
The sad part is that the majority prefer a smalltrout lake over, a good pike fishery.
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| Fishing out on my lake recently I chatted with another local who told me last early spring he drifted up on a "yard-long pike so big it looked like it had swollowed 3 footballs" He said it was scary big, and it just drifted from the shallows out to deeper water as he got close.
I think there are spooky big fish, at least a couple, in every lake that holds pike/muskies plus lots of forage. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | every time i see that pic i just stare for a couple minutes. that thing is huge. |
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| Pikopath - 10/5/2006 11:53 AM
Hehe, sure, stock muskies... The only fish that are stocked here is trout, KILL ALL THE PIKE!!! so we can overcrowd another lake with 1lbs trout
The sad part is that the majority prefer a smalltrout lake over, a good pike fishery.
Michael
Man,we get the same crap over here with the anti-musky crowd.Some of the Walleye guys gut em with a knife,when they catch them accidently. I can tell you'r not a "bait " fisherman,either.Any plans to do a Musky trip over here? |
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Location: Rhinelander. | I hope they have pike like that in holland as I am working on a trip there next summer> it would be great fishing for pike like that.
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Location: Norway | I do fish for "baitfish" every now and then, Salmon/trout is the only fish i like to eat.
Yes, Im planning on a muskytrip some time in the future. I visited NY this april, but the plans for a trip, with someone from this forum, didnt come thru.
Don P.: Ive seen some images/reports from Holland, alot of big pikes there, but for some reason the dutch loves to travel to Norway and Sweden to fish for pike 
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Location: Norway | Don Pfeiffer: Found this dutch site: http://www.metersnoeken.nl/index.php?option=content&task=category&s...
Im sure you can find a contact or 2 there
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