Hard water Pike
 

Got out twice this week for my first two trips on the hard water for some Pike, and definitely wasn't disappointed! First day ended with over 40 Pike up to about 32-inches and 5 Pickerel on the ice, the second day was considerably slower with only about 20 Pike and a handful of Pickerel on the ice, but the day was topped off with a nice 36+

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Nice bro

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Very nice.

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Hey I seen you on the ice this week!! Nice fish! When I was leaving I saw you gaf a fish and then realese it. I'm just wondering why you were gafing fish if you were throwing them back. I also seen one floating belly up under the ice.

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Fantastic!

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Nice job! Thats a crazy amount of fish

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probably just lip gaffing them. no worse than hookin em

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Big difference in a hook hole and a gaff hole through a jaw. No reason to gaff a fish you don't plan on keeping. Bocca grip works great for landing big toothy fish

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Ditto. And from the details your boy shared & the pictures shown, it can be a crazy amount of dead fish as well.
Come on fellaz...VETS, newbies, use the search engine on these pages to get great info on previous threads & more recent ones(http://www.njfishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86336).

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Yeah did not expect this if its true. I really hope its not. Especially from a guy with as much experience as Zach