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Ice Fishing Media => Ice Fishing Pictures => Topic started by: mike692 on Feb 13, 2004, 06:58 AM
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Spent the day on the ice and hated to leave at dark. :-[
Caught a mess of pike and perch that were too small plus these keepers....
(http://www.hunt101.com/img/101334.jpg)
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those are pickeral,not pike but the top pickeral is a very nice fish along with the others .. atleast someone did good.
kuped up
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those are pickeral,not pike but the top pickeral is a very nice fish along with the others .. atleast someone did good.
kuped up
Yeah, I know, if I had thought they were pike they wouldn't be there. 24 inch size limit ya know. ;D
That top pickeral was 22 inches and it had a 5 inch bluegill in it's stomach when I cleaned it.
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Nice mess of fish. :D
Where is High Point?
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High Point is in southern PA a few miles from the Maryland border. It's on Mt. Davis which is the highest point in PA, thus the name. ;D
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mike692,
Thanks. I lived in High Point, North Carolina for a few years. It is the highest elevation on the north-south rail line, hence it's name. Fun with geography eh? ;)
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I have heard of High Point, NC. Probably not much ice fishing there, huh? ;D
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No ice fishing there but I did hone my bass skills on open water lakes and ponds.
That and kayaking were much of the reason the time I lived there wasn't a total waste. ;)
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What's the easiest waqy to tell difference? I thougbt pickeral were very rare on highpoint? PFBC study produced ONE pickeral to MANY pike. I guess I've caught many legal "fish" there and never realized it.
Also, you obviously eat pickeral/pike. How do you clean/prepare them? The "Y" bone poses problems for a lot. Are they tasty or just better than nothing.
Thanks!
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What's the easiest waqy to tell difference? I thougbt pickeral were very rare on highpoint? PFBC study produced ONE pickeral to MANY pike. I guess I've caught many legal "fish" there and never realized it.
Also, you obviously eat pickeral/pike. How do you clean/prepare them? The "Y" bone poses problems for a lot. Are they tasty or just better than nothing.
Thanks!
WM,
I have been fishing at High Point for many years, and this is the first year I've caught pickeral. As soon as I pulled that big one through the ice I was sure it wasn't a northern. The pickerals markings are more like a chain, whereas a northern has horizontal bean shaped markings.
When I clean pike, I just fillet them like any other fish, and eat around the bones. There was a thread on the general board with a link that showed you how to remove the "y" bones with very little waste.
I cooked those pickeral in canola oil, sprinkled some Old Bay on them, and ate them with cocktail sauce. They were very good.
BTW, I caught another pickeral today, along with 7 northerns that were too small. Biggest was 23". :-[
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Here's yesterday's catch.........
(http://www.hunt101.com/img/103621.jpg)
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Here's yesterday's catch.........
Dang .. at least someone is catchin them! Add in some smaller pike and you've got a good day on the ice!
Congrats.
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ok warthog wheres the honey hole ill pay top dollar for the right info