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Offline GasBlaster

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pike catch and release
« on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:53 PM »
Why does everyone kill the pike they catch and just let them  lay on the ice?  What a waist. I think if your just going to waist the fish why not set it back?
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Offline kmgb42

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #1 on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:55 PM »
THEY ARE INVASIVE >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Offline StingingLips

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #2 on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:56 PM »
uh oh
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Offline Bowdoin Boy

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #3 on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:57 PM »
OOOH NO here we go again :whistle:
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Offline PINSMELT

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #4 on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:58 PM »
In before the lock  ;D
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Offline thefshdentist

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #5 on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:58 PM »
people have a theory that they are eliminating the pike out of a lake by doing that.  Its equivalent to taking a bucket of water out of moosehead lake and say you are draining the lake.
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Offline nbourque

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #6 on: Mar 07, 2013, 03:58 PM »
Quote from: GasBlaster on Mar 07, 2013, 03:53 PM
Why does everyone kill the pike they catch and just let them  lay on the ice?  What a waist. I think if your just going to waist the fish why not set it back?

agreed
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Offline kmgb42

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #7 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:04 PM »
KILL UM ALL EVERY LAST ONE!!!!!!
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Offline NoMe

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #8 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:06 PM »
They are junk fish... just like yellow perch.
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Offline Epkomd

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #9 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:12 PM »
Quote from: thefshdentist on Mar 07, 2013, 03:58 PM
people have a theory that they are eliminating the pike out of a lake by doing that.  Its equivalent to taking a bucket of water out of moosehead lake and say you are draining the lake.

so i assume you release the majority of the pike you catch?
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Offline kmgb42

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #10 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:14 PM »
Maine's very own alligators........X2 on a junk fish....
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Offline thefshdentist

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #11 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:14 PM »
Quote from: Epkomd on Mar 07, 2013, 04:12 PM
so i assume you release the majority of the pike you catch?
yes i do . i release the majority of everything i catch . Where i pike fish isnt over run with short pike .
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Offline lunkahville

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #12 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:19 PM »
I will leave this one alone. Already had one post be moderated for a epic pike debate were I was just posting facts
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Offline Epkomd

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #13 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:33 PM »
Quote from: thefshdentist on Mar 07, 2013, 04:14 PM
yes i do . i release the majority of everything i catch . Where i pike fish isnt over run with short pike .

i agree with you. the kill them all attitude is pointless. they are here to stay so might as well make the best of it.

i know alot of the older guys on here hate that the belgrades are not what they used to be... i would too, but killing all

those fish is not going to remove them from any body of water... and killing them is not going to stop their spread. if someone

is going to dump fish into a pond, they will find the fish to do it. honestly, id rather see a lake like messalonskee managed as a

trophy pike fishery than what it is today... which is junk.  Im sure 80% of people on here disagree, but thats my input on the topic.

luckily, more and more people are beginning to feel the same.
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Offline nbourque

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #14 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:36 PM »
Quote from: Epkomd on Mar 07, 2013, 04:33 PM
i agree with you. the kill them all attitude is pointless. they are here to stay so might as well make the best of it.

i know alot of the older guys on here hate that the belgrades are not what they used to be... i would too, but killing all

those fish is not going to remove them from any body of water... and killing them is not going to stop their spread. if someone

is going to dump fish into a pond, they will find the fish to do it. honestly, id rather see a lake like messalonskee managed as a

trophy pike fishery than what it is today... which is junk.  Im sure 80% of people on here disagree, but thats my input on the topic.

luckily, more and more people are beginning to feel the same.
I agree with you. Let's face the facts and try to manage some of these waters for what they are. I'm not saying what was done in the past is right but as the saying goes "it is what it is".
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Offline BrownTroutBoy

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #15 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:37 PM »
Kill em' all, birds gotta eat too!
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Offline kmgb42

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #16 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:41 PM »
Every one I kill is one less!!!!! They have destroyed great fisheries and its people like this that help them do it :%$#!: :%$#!: How much you wana bet this post gets pulled..........
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Offline thefshdentist

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #17 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:43 PM »
Quote from: BrownTroutBoy on Mar 07, 2013, 04:37 PM
Kill em' all, birds gotta eat too!
Gutta save them native browns , straight out of where ? germany ;D
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Offline BrownTroutBoy

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #18 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:44 PM »
Quote from: thefshdentist on Mar 07, 2013, 04:43 PM
Gutta save them native browns , straight out of where ? germany ;D
Well played! I happen to like my spotted fish!
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Offline kmgb42

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #19 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:45 PM »
Dont believe anyone said they were....
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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #20 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:51 PM »
Fact is, they taste damn good! Fillet 'em, cut out the Y bone and you've got a great chowder. That being said, no pike I catch is going to go back down the hole!
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Offline thefshdentist

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #21 on: Mar 07, 2013, 04:53 PM »
to each his own is the best solution.
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Offline thedirtydirtyfisherman

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #22 on: Mar 07, 2013, 05:06 PM »
people this debate goes on and on...but as ive stated before the law tells you to kill them
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Offline gradysjeep

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #23 on: Mar 07, 2013, 05:33 PM »
Why do people get so upset when someone throws a pike to the eagles?  Would people feel better if I brought it home and put it on my garden because then it wouldn't go to waste. If someone wants to keep every single pike they catch so what, it is there right to do so as the law currently is no bag limit. As someone else said to each there own. You guys that want to see lakes like Messo managed for trophy pike have you written or spoken with IFW
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Offline rmoody79

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #24 on: Mar 07, 2013, 05:51 PM »
Slaughter em
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Offline MadDad

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #25 on: Mar 07, 2013, 06:08 PM »
to each his own is right, me and the kid dont leave anything on the ice. if we dont eat it, back down the hole it goes.
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Offline Troutaddict8976

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #26 on: Mar 07, 2013, 07:04 PM »
I only fish for Pike at sabbattus so I let em go id much rather catch pike than bass or perch anyways...but if I catch a pike in trout waters its done for!
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Offline Icy Bones

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #27 on: Mar 07, 2013, 07:45 PM »
Now that I'm here this thread is a LOCK!!!!   I like and agree with the opinion that if  they're already here then lets manage them for trophy fish!!!!  Stop the expansion as best we can but manage the waters that already have good populations.  Where else do you have the opportunity to catch a 20+lb fish on a regular basis!!!
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Offline snag

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #28 on: Mar 07, 2013, 08:16 PM »
this is Maine just about every bog hole that holds water in the state was a brook trout pond at one point in time before invasives.  Kill them all one less is one less to lay or ferterlize eggs and hope that other fish eat their fry.  If you can fish out a bever flowage in the spring then you can reduce a invasive population by taking as many as you can.  SO DONT THROW THEM BACK LIKE THE LAW BOOK SAYS!!!
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Offline nitro04106

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Re: pike catch and release
« Reply #29 on: Mar 07, 2013, 08:51 PM »
sweet brown says aint nobody got time for that........... ::)
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