1st Kayak Pike of 2014

[stevejordan]

nice fatty!

[Eskimo]

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Great fish Skunk. I didn't realize you could sex pike.

It's still too cold for me to get out on the water. I'll probably hold out until we get a daytime high of at least the 60's.

Be careful out there. Hypothermia sets in very quickly when someone falls into this ice-cold water.



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[Skunk City]

Originally Posted by Eskimo

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Great fish Skunk. I didn't realize you could sex pike.

It's still too cold for me to get out on the water. I'll probably hold out until we get a daytime high of at least the 60's.



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This time of year is fairly easy. The females are always very fat and oftentimes, longer than the males. After the spawning period, your guess is as good as mine lol.

[Skunk City]

Originally Posted by gwl2oneida

Nice fish Rob! Anyone know why they don't stock them in monksville? It seems like that north side would be good habitat from why I understand of pike.

There is a picture floating around of a guy holding a low 30" Pike near the standing timber at Monksville from the early/mid 90's.

[Eskimo]

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I did a Google and search and found that there are slight differences in the urogenital areas of male and female pike. I guess you can differentiate the sexes throughout the year if you want to study the pike's junk with a magnifying glass.

http://books.google.com/books?id=l9Z...rphism&f=false

[Gatto1227]

Andy I love your enthusiasm about the millstone river pike but being that it's my home town river and spend a lot of time looking for that millstone pike, I'm starting to think it's a myth lol

[JimmyMas]

Gonna change your name to PIKECITY!. Nice catch Buddy!

[FASTEDDIE29]

AWESOME catch dude!!! I gotta hit a river or lake somewhere soon, this chocolate milk by me ain't cutting it. Very nice fish!!!

[NorthJerzyG]

Nice fish dude!!! Checked out the river yesterday and it looked unfishable. Good job finding some action.

[UglyStick]

Great job Rob - way to kick off the open water