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Spicoli

Posted 1/11/2008 10:25 AM (#293437 - in reply to #293426)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

Posts: 13

Location: Mille Lacs

Musky53 - 1/11/2008 8:54 AM

Definetly not Italy! Rainy Lake for sure!!!

There's also a small unknown lake in MN that produces big Euro Pike.

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C.Painter

Posted 1/11/2008 12:46 PM (#293446 - in reply to #293426)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

Posts: 1245

Location: Madtown, WI

Where in Italy??? What times are peak?? I might have a business trip to northern Italy (milan area) in the next month or two...would LOVE to tangle with one of those beasts!!!!

Cory

Oliver-Loer

Posted 1/11/2008 3:09 PM (#293462 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: Re: Big Northern

Posts: 1

Location: Germany

the pike on the photo you see was caught in an water supply dam for drink water. the lake is called "Biggesee".

not all the germans practice catch and kill/cook. there are many people who practice catch and release.

look at www.hechtfieber.de, it is a nice site with all about pike fishing. the users at hechtfieber are mostly pactice C&R.

best regards
oliver

sorry for my english

bfunk73183

Posted 1/11/2008 11:11 PM (#293551 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

Posts: 315

i say just drive to the downtown madison area and fish there.......many big pike that people arent aware of

-b-

DocEsox

Posted 1/12/2008 1:54 AM (#293557 - in reply to #293287)
Subject: Re: Big Northern

Posts: 384

Location: Eagle River, Alaska

Chico.....not all "trout" systems are equal and I would love to have reference to studies you mention about pike having little effect on trout populations. Here in Alaska pike are native and very abundant in the interior areas of Alaska but not in the the coastal, or southern part of the state.. Over the last 20 years misguided individuals have transplanted pike into southern waters which has caused enormous destruction of juvenile salmon (especially sockeye) in the lake systems they have infected. Some specific lake sockeye runs have disappeared in less than 10 years and the pike are spreading like wildfire. A few years ago they were found in some of the remote headwater lake drainages of the Kenai River.....and if the cannot be stopped and get into the Kenai River could permenantly damage or annhilate the largest run of king salmon in the world and one of the greatest multiple species trout and salmon fisheries that exist.

Nearly all the lake systems they have been found in are rapidly depleted of nearly all species of trout existing there. In their native areas I love fishing pike but any and all fish can have drastic effects when introduced into non native areas. Certainly we have destroyed enough native freshwater ecosystems to know that.

Brian

Guest

Posted 1/12/2008 10:03 PM (#293703 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

bfunk says: i say just drive to the downtown madison area and fish there.......many big pike that people arent aware of

-b-

ummmmmmmm yah, there are nice pike here...NOT anything like the pike in those pics...those are BIG pike...Mendota doesn't have pike like that...

Posted 1/13/2008 12:02 AM (#293719 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

No, Mendota is way hyped up. I wouldn't waste my time there. I hear Ireland is the place to be.

bfunk73183

Posted 1/13/2008 12:46 AM (#293721 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

Posts: 315

mid to upper 40's are big pike anywhere. ya nothing like europe pike but i dont wanna fly that far

coach7373

Posted 1/15/2008 10:03 PM (#294293 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: Re: Big Northern

Posts: 23

Very cool thread...

steelysngr

Posted 1/15/2008 10:14 PM (#294299 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: Re: Big Northern

yeah those pike definetly took down someone's dog.

Slamr

Posted 1/15/2008 10:55 PM (#294308 - in reply to #293192)
Subject: RE: Big Northern

Posts: 7113

Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs

And here's one sent to me by Mark at Okuma. Holy crapin pike.

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