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| https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-20258927.html
"The fish was certainly a ‘her’, not a ‘him’, but the Marquis was equally astonished by the size of it and called for an accurate weighing scales. “It exceeded the balance at ninety-two pounds; its length was such that when carried across the oar by the two gentlemen, who were neither of them short, the head and tail touched the ground.”"
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Searching For Legendary Giant Pike In Ireland | Jeremy Wade's Dark Waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTSAjac91E&ab_channel=DiscoveryUK
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| These type of stories from way back when I just have a hard time believing. |
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| jvlast15 - 12/2/2022 10:05 AM
These type of stories from way back when I just have a hard time believing.
If you watch the Jeremy Wade video at the end the biologist states that there was another species of pike around in those times that may have grown larger. |
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| Some stories from the old days are true. There are legends about giant sturgeon swimming in the rivers when the first Europeans moved west. And some survived long enough that early photographers captured images of them. One photo from a western river in the 1800s showed a massive sturgeon that was longer and wider than the canoe on the shore beside it. Dams, hunting of them for food wiped out those centuries' old creatures. Does not seem like a stretch that over harvest could wipe out a species of pike. Passenger pigeons once numbered in the billions. Seen one lately? |
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | North of 8 - 12/2/2022 10:38 AM
Some stories from the old days are true. There are legends about giant sturgeon swimming in the rivers when the first Europeans moved west. And some survived long enough that early photographers captured images of them. One photo from a western river in the 1800s showed a massive sturgeon that was longer and wider than the canoe on the shore beside it.
Might be referring to this one from Roseau River, Manitoba caught in 1903 - 15'2", 406 lbs:
https://www.museumsmanitoba.com/resources/apps/150/Franklin%2001-Lar... |
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| Angling Oracle - 12/2/2022 10:54 AM
North of 8 - 12/2/2022 10:38 AM
Some stories from the old days are true. There are legends about giant sturgeon swimming in the rivers when the first Europeans moved west. And some survived long enough that early photographers captured images of them. One photo from a western river in the 1800s showed a massive sturgeon that was longer and wider than the canoe on the shore beside it.
Might be referring to this one from Roseau River, Manitoba caught in 1903 - 15'2", 406 lbs:
https://www.museumsmanitoba.com/resources/apps/150/Franklin%2001-Lar...
Impressive fish, but the one I referenced was from the western U.S. and the photo was taken around the time of the civil war. It was estimated to weigh over 1,000 pounds.
Note: Could not find that photo but did find one of sturgeon taken from the Snake River in Oregon in the early 1900s that was estimated at 1,500 pounds. Edited by North of 8 12/2/2022 12:16 PM
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | North of 8 - 12/2/2022 11:30 AM
Impressive fish, but the one I referenced was from the western U.S. and the photo was taken around the time of the civil war. It was estimated to weigh over 1,000 pounds.
Note: Could not find that photo but did find one of sturgeon taken from the Snake River in Oregon in the early 1900s that was estimated at 1,500 pounds.
Yeah, there probably are still some white sturgeon that size today - they are sea-run and they get a lot bigger than lake sturgeon. The 1903 one s really a remarkable Lake Sturgeon specimen given its length - it actually probably is emaciated from being trapped in pretty much a creek after making a spawning run up from Lake Winnipeg (prior to dam at Lockport).
There have been a couple real giants caught recently up here, one in Black Sturgeon Lake and one in LOTW:
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5582699.1590349486!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg... |
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| If an Irish Pike did obtain the size of 90+ pounds it would be approximately double the size of these two pike specimens! It would be like reeling in a gator to the boat 
https://blog.rodmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/brochet-record-s...
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/32/ea/b2/32eab29516f2ccfa0ce7711b4f5d... |
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| I know for sure that there are a few isolated but large weed beds along the southern shore of Lake Superior that still hold a fragile population of incredibly big pike. Verified by a DNR Fisheries Biologist who admitted it to me only after I provided him with picture proof. Everybody that knows leaves them alone, me, too.
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| Back in the day fishermen caught fish for food and if they got a big one it was just more food. When my dad was a kid (1930-40's) he lived in Racine WI. and would go down to Lake Michigan and catch some type of Perch (I think they were a green Perch or some kind of relative to Yellow Perch?) or maybe a Yellow Perch but he could catch them all day and one time he caught one that was way over four pounds and he took it home to eat with the rest of them. |
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