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Offline RoeBoat

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Pike
« on: Feb 09, 2018, 10:49 AM »
I'm looking to find some pike.  Any suggestions?  I have a new pickled fish concoction I want to try.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #1 on: Feb 09, 2018, 11:00 AM »
Not sure where to catch them but they finally changed limits for the 2018 season. minimum 24" and only 1 over 30.
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Re: Pike
« Reply #2 on: Feb 09, 2018, 11:00 AM »
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Re: Pike
« Reply #3 on: Feb 09, 2018, 11:14 AM »
I've gotten into a mess of them up there before.  Trolling with shad raps one day we couldn't keep our lines in the water.  I think we were on lake Margerethe near Grayling.  I also have caught a bunch in Canada.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #4 on: Feb 09, 2018, 11:16 AM »
found a lot on Hamilton and clear bass fishing over the years....

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Re: Pike
« Reply #5 on: Feb 09, 2018, 11:31 AM »
I was told they are hard to locate in Hamilton thru the ice, not sure.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #6 on: Feb 09, 2018, 12:18 PM »
Wawasee has a good population or at least it used to. Had a few jigs ate when perch fishing through the years. Hex

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Re: Pike
« Reply #7 on: Feb 09, 2018, 12:25 PM »
Not sure where to catch them but they finally changed limits for the 2018 season. minimum 24" and only 1 over 30.

Although I think the limit is increased on Hamilton except for over 30 inches due to an abundance of small pike there?
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Re: Pike
« Reply #8 on: Feb 09, 2018, 12:27 PM »
I was told they are hard to locate in Hamilton thru the ice, not sure.

The numbers are there I've been told.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #9 on: Feb 09, 2018, 01:19 PM »
I tried pickling a pike this summer and it turned out surprisingly well.  I had never tried pickling fish before, but I think i will do some more of that.   

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Re: Pike
« Reply #10 on: Feb 09, 2018, 04:13 PM »
Hamilton will do ya.

i pickled a pike once.  it wasnt bad but it wasnt great.
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Re: Pike
« Reply #11 on: Feb 09, 2018, 04:29 PM »
Hamilton will do ya.

i pickled a pike once.  it wasnt bad but it wasnt great.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #12 on: Feb 09, 2018, 07:59 PM »
you have to try it to know if you like it.  maybe roeboat will let you try a taste when his cures.   lol

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Re: Pike
« Reply #13 on: Feb 09, 2018, 08:25 PM »
I'll share my pickled pike, got to catch some first.  Might head to the SEE on Monday.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #14 on: Feb 09, 2018, 08:51 PM »
Dewart, wawasee, chapman, Hamilton are all full of pike.  Set a couple tip ups with small gills as bait while you are fishing for larger gills and crappie.  If you are around the gills the pike are nearby.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #15 on: Feb 09, 2018, 08:53 PM »
Chapman lake had an insanely high pike population a few years back.  I haven't fished it for a few years but I'd imagine they are still thick in there.
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Re: Pike
« Reply #16 on: Feb 10, 2018, 09:55 AM »
I'm looking to find some pike.  Any suggestions?  I have a new pickled fish concoction I want to try.

A friend in the ANG made pickled walleye. Oh. My. God. Couldn't stop eating them! Are your pickled fish that good? May have to get the recipe if you will give it out. I tried a recipe from a fish book I have and they weren't that great. Have lost contact with the friend in the ANG. I suppose I could see if I can find him again.
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Re: Pike
« Reply #17 on: Feb 11, 2018, 06:58 AM »
hey taxi, why is the dnr trying to wipe out the pike population at hamilton?  as a fisherman i havent noticed an explosion in the population or anything.   
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Re: Pike
« Reply #18 on: Feb 11, 2018, 08:09 AM »
hey taxi, why is the dnr trying to wipe out the pike population at hamilton?  as a fisherman i havent noticed an explosion in the population or anything.

I don't know if they are trying to wipe them out but I've been told by several anglers there are a lot of small ones in there as of late. They can overpopulate to the detriment of other species. I've see it in some Michigan lakes where you can only catch hammer handle size pike.
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Re: Pike
« Reply #19 on: Feb 11, 2018, 08:26 AM »
Pretty sure you couldn't wipe those pike out of there with a hook and line if you tried really hard.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #20 on: Feb 11, 2018, 10:44 AM »
I don't know I they are trying to wipe them out but I've been told by several anglers there are a lot of small ones in there as of late. They can overpopulate to the detriment of other species. I've see it in some Michigan lakes where you can only catch hammer handle size pike.
Several of the lakes in the U.P. Have pike problems and they implemented a 5 pike limit with only on can be 24" or bigger. The LAKE I fish you can tell it is helping with the size, but it will still take a few more years to see if it really works

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Re: Pike
« Reply #21 on: Feb 11, 2018, 11:02 AM »
Ya i had more pike in the 12-20 inch range in my boat last year than i think i ever have up there, them ones are the ones that get someone stuck, floppin and rollin all over

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Re: Pike
« Reply #22 on: Feb 11, 2018, 11:13 AM »
i love this stuff, use Pike or walleye!  3TBSP Salt,. 1\4 Cup sugar, 1 Onion sliced,  2 TSP pickling spice. Fill a quart jar 3\4 full of cut up fish and the sliced onions, Then fill the jar with White Vinegar. Add the rest of the ingredients. Cover the jar and let stand in refrigerator for 4 Days this recipe tastes just like pickeled herring but I think its better probably cause of the fish being used enjoy.

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Re: Pike
« Reply #23 on: Feb 11, 2018, 11:17 AM »
will have to go target them in spring i guess and see how many we catch.  like said, we havent noticed a huge abundance there in our fishing the last couple years.  besides there is a huge biomass of panfish for them to feed on. not to mention billions upon billions of shad. i find it hard to fathom enough pike to be detrimental to those populations. time will tell i guess what becomes of this. chapman lake is way overpopulated (and has been for 25yrs that i know of)with them, but no regs were ever made for there.  this just seems odd to me is all. ill sure do my part to harvest as many28-29"ers as i can though. ;D 

i hope this isnt a start to an idiotic rule book like michigans here in indiana. 
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Re: Pike
« Reply #24 on: Feb 11, 2018, 12:52 PM »
I hope this isnt a start to an idiotic rule book like michigans here in indiana.

I hate picking up a rule book and having my eyes glaze over in less than 2 minutes!

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Re: Pike
« Reply #25 on: Feb 11, 2018, 02:35 PM »
i love this stuff, use Pike or walleye!  3TBSP Salt,. 1\4 Cup sugar, 1 Onion sliced,  2 TSP pickling spice. Fill a quart jar 3\4 full of cut up fish and the sliced onions, Then fill the jar with White Vinegar. Add the rest of the ingredients. Cover the jar and let stand in refrigerator for 4 Days this recipe tastes just like pickeled herring but I think its better probably cause of the fish being used enjoy.

I might have to try that!
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Re: Pike
« Reply #26 on: Feb 14, 2018, 04:43 PM »
Hamilton is great for pike and with so many they changed to regs for Hamilton for pike to 6 with no minimum size but still only one allowed over 30"

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Re: Pike
« Reply #27 on: Feb 15, 2018, 08:43 AM »
Not sure where to catch them but they finally changed limits for the 2018 season. minimum 24" and only 1 over 30.
It is about time . Indiana needs to review all catch sizes and limits

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Re: Pike
« Reply #28 on: Feb 15, 2018, 10:10 AM »
It is about time . Indiana needs to review all catch sizes and limits
My friends and i have been doing this on our own for years. 20" to small to clean anyway and we never keep any over 30.  25 to 28 is about perfect to clean
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Re: Pike
« Reply #29 on: Feb 15, 2018, 11:36 AM »
My friends and i have been doing this on our own for years. 20" to small to clean anyway and we never keep any over 30.  25 to 28 is about perfect to clean
Double Amen Fishinator . I have the same policy . A 27" will more than feed 2 hungry people

 



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