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In NY, alot of idiots think by leaving the pickerel on the ice to "feed the birds" it helps the yellow perch population in a lake.
Last spring I was fishing the Fenton end of mansfield early in the morning. I was in waders, and it was pretty foggy, I had a "hardcore" bass guy roll up to me in a boat. We started chatting. He noticed I was throwing big baits and asked me if I was bass fishing. I told him I was looking for pike and he went off, telling me that every time he catches a pike he throws it in the woods because "they have destroyed the bass population" I told him I thought that was strange because that morning I caught back to back 5 and 6 pound largies on my pike baits. Some people are just uneducated and ignorant. If anything is hurting the bass in that lake it's the bucket brigades.
In my opinion lakes with pike populations tend to have the biggest bass as well. Just something ive noticed over the years.
One time these guys where doing the same thing on a lake i was fishing. Guess who showed up? The game warden. Game warden asked what those fish where. They said pickerel don't belong in this lake. Well that game warden told them they arent allowed to do that. Next time there getting ticketed for every fish on the ice.
Just a couple of questions. If you use 10-12 inch suckers for pike bait and they eat them, wouldn't a pike eat 10-12 inch bass also? If they eat the small bass what replaces the big bass when they die off? If pike and bass are eating the same baits then one or the other doesn't get as much food as needed and does not get as big. And if it's the bass that are not getting as big then the pike could eat even more of them.
Go to Mansfield hollow and tell me the pike didn't affect the bass population
Just a couple of questions. If you use 10-12 inch suckers for pike bait and they eat them, wouldn't a pike eat 10-12 inch bass also?