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| My boyfriend and I have been ice fishing and over 3-4 days seem to have caught the same pike. The markings seem to be identical in the pictures we have taken and not just 1 or 2 markings....it seems like all the markings are the same. Do pike have similar markings? Are the markings like fingerprints, all unique? I am very curious. A friend of ours says that pike fish all have the same markings which seems ridiculous to me.
Please let me know.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Mary, Fish are like people no two are exactly alike, even identical twins have some differences
Edited by JohnMD 3/15/2005 3:53 PM
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Location: north central wisconsin | Exactly as John stated. My friend released a 40" pike through the ice 4 years ago. I caught the same fish two years later and released it as well. When inspecting photos, I took note of some very unique markings on the fish, and realized it was the very same fish. I gave one of the pictures of my friend releasing it to Fittante to work with while making the replica. Even he had no doubt that is was the same Pike. I just hope to get it one more time....... |
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Location: Holly, MI | On a trip a couple of years ago way up in Quebec we caught the same pike 4 or 5 times in 6 days. We called him "Red Lips".
Tou could see the holes from previous hook removals. He was always in the same spot and we couldn't drift by his hideout without giving him a shot. He was nice but not one of the bigger fish we found but he went abouot 12-14 pounds.
I agree that every fish is unique however in some species it would be much harder to differentiate one from another. A lot of the smallies we catch on Lake St Clair seem to look identical but with 100% releases we never compare one to another. |
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