WDFW wants to stop the pike in Roosevelt. You can't make this stuff up.

[Huntin Hounds]

Wdfw can't find a pack of wolves! You wanna wait for them to find breeding pike? Keep the population low before they become a problem instead of trying to fix a bigger problem later. If there are enough people that want a pike fishery then I suggest proposing some lakes that could support them that aren't connected to the Columbia. I have no problem with changing other lakes to be managed for different species.

Squaw fish definitely have an impact on the Columbia and the state is doing what they can. Sorry pc police I wont call them anything else. 

[NRA4LIFE]

Pike are delicious.  If you know how to clean them, you can get rid of all the bones.  Caught hundreds of them in WI when I was young.  Go get 'em people.

[UBA]

How long before one gets caught in Rufus? How long before they get in the okanagon? I'm guessing 3 years and 5 years

[magnus100]

I just dumped a truck load  of 50,000 fingerling pike below Mcnary dam. I can't wait to see how big they get in all those sloughs

[Ridgeratt]

How long before one gets caught in Rufus? How long before they get in the okanagon? I'm guessing 3 years and 5 years

If I was a betting man since they are also in the Spokane River and therefore in the arm perhaps less than a year. If not sooner.
Who knows they might be there already.

[cumminsbassguy]

well time for my  with the P.O river, sure they gill netted almost triple the pike they "thought" were in there. they also netted around 10k largies and smallies and then all of the pan fish and everything else that got caught up in there. Gill netting is definitely NOT the way to go for that. Roetoneene ( how ever you spell it) that's just a joke, that ruins a whole fishery for years. Sprague still can still hardly stay on its feet, I cant wait to see what it does to Badger lake. The squaw fish are more of a threat then the pike to the precious salmon out here. squaws eat everything and then some, which Is why I kill every. single. one of them and feed them to the eagles. Long lake is a good balance I think. it has monster pike and good sized rainbows and pretty darn big silvers. Its kept in check. you cant really stop a fish from spreading without collateral damage to other fish in the area.

[JLS]

Sprague still can still hardly stay on its feet.

Okay.....

[mossyhead]

WDFW does not have the funds or ability to manage a mud puddle, don't kid yourselves.

[pianoman9701]

Pike are delicious.  If you know how to clean them, you can get rid of all the bones.  Caught hundreds of them in WI when I was young.  Go get 'em people.

I also fished for pike back in the NE and like them. But back there, our government is not contractually obligated to save native salmon and steelhead. I would bet that much of this push is due to treaties.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

I don't really understand all the hatred for northern pike? Sure they eat other fish, but I don't think they are ever going to wipe out a species... Over time I think things would balance themselves out. One of my favorite fish to catch, and eat!

I can assure you that you are wrong. The Matanuska/Susitna Valleys in Alaska have been decimated by pike.  In some of the lakes  all that remains is pike. They are particularly bad for salmon and have devastated many runs in the Mat-Su.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=invasivepike.main

[YJ Guide Service]

How is it they all live together back east and in Canada. Salmon, Pike, Bass, Walleye and other fish all living together. The Pike aren't devastating those Salmon or other fish. It will depend on if there are garbage fish in the system, if so they will eat them over trout or Salmon since they live in two different water columns.

[KFhunter]

Sure be nice to have a freshwater game species to snorkel spear fish, made a post in the advocacy section see if we can get something going. 

[C-Money]

Hope we can get on top of them quickly...bonk them if you catch any.

[Firedogg]

  Time to expand the areas that BPA pays a bounty on catching them. Could be my next full time gig. Inthink the guy who got the top money this year made just under $100K.

[The scout]

Sure be nice to have a freshwater game species to snorkel spear fish, made a post in the advocacy section see if we can get something going.

that would be a blast! maybe catch and release