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Location: Alex or Alek? | 25homes - 7/6/2017 11:14 AM
Do you guys not like catching pike or whats up with that?? or is it just the disappointment of thinking you got a Muskie and its a Pike?? I love Musky Fishing But would have no issue at all catching Pike this size while out Muskie Fishing..always wondered this seems lots of guys on here dont like catching Pike
Nope, buddy still gives me crap for shaking of a 38"ish pike while on the V this year. There is nothing worse then thinking you have a muskie on only to be disappointed when it turns out to be a pike, unless its a good pickling size.
Also those darn things always hammer my suick and bend the crap out of the leader. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | MOJOcandy101 - 7/6/2017 4:26 PM
25homes - 7/6/2017 11:14 AM
Do you guys not like catching pike or whats up with that?? or is it just the disappointment of thinking you got a Muskie and its a Pike?? I love Musky Fishing But would have no issue at all catching Pike this size while out Muskie Fishing..always wondered this seems lots of guys on here dont like catching Pike
Nope, buddy still gives me crap for shaking of a 38"ish pike while on the V this year. There is nothing worse then thinking you have a muskie on only to be disappointed when it turns out to be a pike, unless its a good pickling size.
Also those darn things always hammer my suick and bend the crap out of the leader.
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| They start to get my attention when they reach about the 36" mark and anything over 40 gets me pretty pumped up.
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| Honestly, I couldn't care any less about a pike. Even a big one. It's just not exciting to me. I take a picture of a really big one now and then because I feel obligated! LOL! It's all slime, whether it's 24" or 44"!
That seems crazy to me that you wouldnt get excited about catching a 44" pike...... i mean come on i get that its disapounting to not be a musky, but just think that most anglers (even pike anglers) wont ever catch one that big |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | T3clay - 7/7/2017 2:45 AM
Honestly, I couldn't care any less about a pike. Even a big one. It's just not exciting to me. I take a picture of a really big one now and then because I feel obligated! LOL! It's all slime, whether it's 24" or 44"!
That seems crazy to me that you wouldnt get excited about catching a 44" pike...... i mean come on i get that its disapounting to not be a musky, but just think that most anglers (even pike anglers ) wont ever catch one that big
Up north thats very realistic for most pike anglers. If your into it. |
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| My buddy caught a 36" ish dogfish this weekend in Northern WI. Hit a bucktail, got it netted. There are no northern in the lake we were fishing, so we were surprised discover what it was upon unhooking the fish.
Thought it was a small musky at first. Turns out it was a WI State Record bowfin. |
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| CRK925 - 7/7/2017 8:17 PM
My buddy caught a 36" ish dogfish this weekend in Northern WI. Hit a bucktail, got it netted. There are no northern in the lake we were fishing, so we were surprised discover what it was upon unhooking the fish.
Thought it was a small musky at first. Turns out it was a WI State Record bowfin.
why didn't he claim the state record? |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | 25homes - 7/6/2017 11:14 AM
Do you guys not like catching pike or whats up with that?? or is it just the disappointment of thinking you got a Muskie and its a Pike?? I love Musky Fishing But would have no issue at all catching Pike this size while out Muskie Fishing..always wondered this seems lots of guys on here dont like catching Pike
Both.
I can't explain it, but it's a real shot to the gut when you think you have a decent musky on and then see those #*^@ white dots pop up on the surface. They always seem to come at a time when you are really dying to get a musky too..
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Location: oswego, il | Here is another one, my youngest son got this one on vermillion about 12 years ago. he's as tall as me with a beard now!
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| Nuclear.smelt - 7/7/2017 8:38 PM
CRK925 - 7/7/2017 8:17 PM
My buddy caught a 36" ish dogfish this weekend in Northern WI. Hit a bucktail, got it netted. There are no northern in the lake we were fishing, so we were surprised discover what it was upon unhooking the fish.
Thought it was a small musky at first. Turns out it was a WI State Record bowfin.
why didn't he claim the state record?
We were talking about how big that dogfish was the next day. I said I'd never seen one that big and decided to look it up. That's when we realized what we threw back. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Had to look back a couple years, but found it.
Was 43.5", and ate a jake boatside in the 8, was a
little disappointed wasn't a ski, but very nice pike....
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| June 6,2017 a legitimate 50"..Great Slave Lake...6 1/2 days ...968 pike, 68 over over 40"..44 over 41"...Just me and my Bud..It is a pike fisherman paradise ! |
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| FYI,the picture is on the Troutrock Facebook page because I could not get it to load !!!! |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Spawned out, she needs to put some weight on! Nice long fish though! |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Clark A - 7/9/2017 4:43 PM
Ken's 50.
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Location: Ashland WI | Nice catch on the arm hold. That guide (or buddy) is worth his weight in gold.
Maybe that makes it into the "not allowed on my boat" thread......"my fishing partner wouldn't even help me hold my arm out for the pictures..."
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Only thing that would make it better would to see his right arm around his waste "supporting" the guide.
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| 28 #'s spawned out..the kids arms were shaking so I offered a little help. Scary thing is that I saw 2 alot bigger than her, which is why I'm going back. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Oh there's giants in Great Slave alright! |
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| 47" from Wapata Lake Saskatchewan in 1995, the only pictures I have can't be uploaded, they were taken with film.
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | That's spelled Saskatchewan, and Wapata is a very good lake
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Location: Bloomington, MN | 43.75" Mille Lacs, before they were spared out. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | 43.75" Mille Lacs, before they were spared out. |
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| 42" north central MN a few years back on double 10s!
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Location: minocqua, wi. | 39" on Eagle at a place i nickname "the nursery". it's the first place i go on each trip to put a fish in the bag. i had a habit of picking fish out of it and just getting the rust off of the trip and getting a start so catching the incidental pike wasn't a surprise. one particular trip though i continued a few casts past the spot and fished over the sand it the bay connecting it and saw one of 3 blonde giants i'd seen there after fishing it for many years. i learned 1. don't be surprised when you see a big, fat mother in a nursery and 2. the value of fishing sand in September!! |
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