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Location: ITALY | Hello everyone is an Italian "guy" of 40 years old fisherman of pike. I decided to join the forum after years I read it ... sorry for my english but to write me help with google translate. I frequent the great lakes of northern Italy in search of the big pike. My current record is 51 "in addition to several fish over 45" but my dream remains the musky. |
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Location: West Bend WI | Welcome to this forum Cicciospin! 51" pike is a whopper! |
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Location: ITALY | how can I insert a photo? |
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| They must have giant pike in Italy. After chasing bigger pike for almost 50 years I've only seen a handful between (42 to 45)". Sounds to me like your catching musky sized pike, congratulations? Another reason to go to Italy |
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Location: ITALY | unfortunately the over 48 are white flies, but if you want to come to Italy I'm happy to take you by boat
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Location: ITALY | [img]https://i.postimg.cc/kVK9fbsQ/WP-20140817-01-49-54-Pro.jpg[/img] |
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Location: West Bend WI | THAT'S a hawg pike Cic! |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | That is a beautiful pike! What can you tell us about the newly recognized Southern Pike species in Italy? |
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Location: ITALY | In Italy we have two different types of pike: the northern pike, which you also have, and the Italian pike. Most of the fish we catch today are notherns like the one in my picture....
lately the Italian pike has been recognized as a species and not as a variety of the pike genus |
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Location: ITALY | The pike fishing in Italy has increased about 15 years ago thanks to the nothern pike because it grew much faster and is on average more aggressive. We then started importing from the US baits, techniques and equipment dedicated to musky and the early days was fun now it is a very hard fishing
Edited by Cicciospin 3/6/2019 8:59 AM
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| Welcome. Congrats on the big pike nice fish!! |
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Location: oswego, il | There was a picture of a pike caught in Italy on this site about 10 or so years ago that was way over 40lbs. Enormous fish. You know somebody is going to start making a bait called a pasta shad! |
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Location: ITALY | For us the pike is the fish of the 10000 casts |
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Location: ITALY | ToddM - 3/6/2019 4:14 PM
There was a picture of a pike caught in Italy on this site about 10 or so years ago that was way over 40lbs. Enormous fish. You know somebody is going to start making a bait called a pasta shad!
I know the fisherman who got that very big pike...
What is pasta shad? You have a photo? |
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| My wife and I will be in Milan in a week. How far from there do you fish?
KS |
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| I'd take a 51" pike over a 51" muskie, any day. |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | Here is more info on the Italian (Southern) Pike.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox_cisalpinus
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Location: ITALY | ksmusky - 3/6/2019 7:10 PM
My wife and I will be in Milan in a week. How far from there do you fish?
KS
I live near Milan, I go fishing on Lake Maggiore about 1 hour from home |
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Location: ITALY | Booch - 3/6/2019 7:46 PM
I'd take a 51" pike over a 51" muskie, any day.
I love pike but I think the musky is a legend .... figures 8, topwater etc ... I envy you |
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