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Title: 32 incher
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on June 13, 2022, 06:41:09 AM: Went fishing for walleye..casting lures from the bank..Hooked this guy. As soon as I hooked her my drag busted on my reel... Interesting fight but got it in---Boy do these suckers fight. Deep fried Pike tonight!!
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Post by: C-Money on June 13, 2022, 06:55:43 AM: Very nice! :tup:
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Post by: lewy on June 13, 2022, 06:57:10 AM: How did it eat?!
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Post by: Southpole on June 13, 2022, 07:02:45 AM: Been wanting one of those for quite some time. I’d love to know how it tasted as well.
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Post by: Stein on June 13, 2022, 07:12:17 AM: Nice one!
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Post by: Russ McDonald on June 13, 2022, 07:16:53 AM: Nothern pike to me is right up there with walleye in taste. Just have to know how to filler them. Lots of bones. My mom and aunt taught me how to debone them. Fried is always the best just chunk out the fillet after you have deboned it. Nice pike.

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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on June 13, 2022, 08:03:20 AM: I've eaten them before and love them..right up there with walleye. I'm thinking about starting up my campfire and use my cast iron skillet to fry them up as a "Shore Lunch" GOTTA GET THE BONES OUT. You Tube University has lots of videos on how to get the bones out
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Post by: NRA4LIFE on June 13, 2022, 08:49:21 AM: What Russ said (from a midwesterner). If you know what you're doing, they can be filleted with no bones left. I've eaten hundreds of them. They are great pickled too.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on June 13, 2022, 08:54:33 AM: Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on June 13, 2022, 08:03:20 AM
I've eaten them before and love them..right up there with walleye. I'm thinking about starting up my campfire and use my cast iron skillet to fry them up as a "Shore Lunch" GOTTA GET THE BONES OUT. You Tube University has lots of videos on how to get the bones out

Back in the NE, we used to pickle chunks of pike and it made the bones dissolve. Kind of like herring but better.
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Post by: Russ McDonald on June 13, 2022, 09:19:13 AM: I was going to mention the pickled pike to. Growing up in NE Minnesota there quite alot of pickled pike in school growing up.

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Post by: h20hunter on June 13, 2022, 09:20:47 AM: Us Midwestern folks will fry anything! I've had pike, gar, and even carp. Carp ribs cleaned and soaked and fried come out pretty good.
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Post by: Parasite on June 13, 2022, 10:07:35 AM: Looks more like a tiger musky?
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Post by: nwwanderer on June 13, 2022, 10:40:58 AM: Roosevelt i assume, thanks, get some more!!!!
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Post by: 7mmfan on June 13, 2022, 11:01:00 AM: That one does have interesting markings. The tigers that I've caught had no spotting though, just very distinct vertical striping. I have seen some images of northerns with subtle striping patterns in their spotting, thats how this one appears to me anyway.
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Post by: Angry Perch on June 13, 2022, 11:08:40 AM: I sure miss catching Northerns. (Pike wasn't in our vocabulary in MN). They do look a bit different out here, as do the walleyes.
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Post by: MooseZ25 on June 13, 2022, 11:13:18 AM: Was it full of planter trout?
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Post by: LDennis24 on June 13, 2022, 01:27:24 PM: Was that right by your place? Or at least on the Columbia if you don't mind sharing?
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Post by: Russ McDonald on June 13, 2022, 01:52:56 PM: Quote from: Angry Perch on June 13, 2022, 11:08:40 AM
I sure miss catching Northerns. (Pike wasn't in our vocabulary in MN). They do look a bit different out here, as do the walleyes.
I was looking at it to. Markings looked different. The spots are definitely the tell tale between the 2.

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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on June 13, 2022, 03:53:31 PM: I've caught quite a few the last few years from Hunters all the way to Rice. This one had very distinct markings. I think it just got through spawning as it's stomach was empty. Here are a few from earlier years to show the markings of these Lake Roosevelt fish.
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Post by: jrebel on June 13, 2022, 04:28:46 PM: When I retire....I may have found a great way to spend my time. Those look like they would fun to catch.....thanks for sharing the photos.
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Post by: NRA4LIFE on June 13, 2022, 04:38:05 PM: Quote from: Angry Perch on June 13, 2022, 11:08:40 AM
I sure miss catching Northerns. (Pike wasn't in our vocabulary in MN). They do look a bit different out here, as do the walleyes.

I never knew them as anything other than Northerns.
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Post by: Ridgeratt on June 13, 2022, 04:56:42 PM: Thank you for killin those. Now more people need to as well. :hello: :tup:
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Post by: Alchase on June 13, 2022, 05:15:08 PM: Great looking fish buckcanyonlodge :tup:

Quote from: jrebel on June 13, 2022, 04:28:46 PM
When I retire....I may have found a great way to spend my time. Those look like they would fun to catch.....thanks for sharing the photos.

I use to love watching them stalk the shallows on lake Curlew. I have never caught one, but I have lost two and my son lost a Tiger on Mayfield Lake that was a monster! It took his Double Whammy about three feet from the boat and splashed all of us. Never even got one turn on that one. He took off and it was all my son (15 at the time) could do was hold on. The cool part is when it took off, it stayed on the surface, two other boats got to see the size of it before he broke off. The look on my son's face a classic, :chuckle:
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Post by: Southpole on June 13, 2022, 05:54:17 PM: http://northernpikefishingtips.com/muskie-vs-tiger-muskie-how-to-tell-them-apart/ (http://northernpikefishingtips.com/muskie-vs-tiger-muskie-how-to-tell-them-apart/)

Lake Curlew has Tiger Muskie.
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Post by: Russ McDonald on June 13, 2022, 07:23:42 PM: I was a dock hand one summer at a lodge at home in noethern MN. Had some Indiana bass fisherman asking us about other fish besides bass in the lake. I told them we have big northerns but don't lip them like bass. Those guys came screaming back in the 18' Skitter bass boat with a 200 Merc Black Max on it. One guy with his hand wrapped in a towel with half his thumb tore off. Being we are so rural it was easier to drive to a hospital. The lodge owners had someone drive them. Those guys came back the next day and the one had stiches in his thumb. He handed me $20 and said you were right and I forgot when I went to haul him in.

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Post by: NRA4LIFE on June 13, 2022, 07:28:02 PM: They are toothy critters. We found that out at very early ages in WI.
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Post by: 7mmfan on June 14, 2022, 09:02:28 AM: In my teens a friend's grandparent's had a little cabin on Curlew. We would go there every summer for at least a week. His grandpa handed over the keys to the 16' smoker craft and off we went. Man what a great time for two teenage boys. We figured out the tiger musky fishing pretty fast and were actually pretty handy at catching them, averaging 3-4 a day. One evening I caught a nice one, about 42" or 43" if I remember right. We drug it in the boat and hit it in the head with the little bat I had for a bonker. I thought it was done and was standing there in flip flops right in front of it basking in the glory of it all, when it regained consciousness and latched onto the end of my sandal, just grazing my toes, and starting flopping all over raising hell in the boat. If he'd gotten my toes, he very well might have ripped them right off. Needless to say, the bat came back out and finished the job.
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Post by: 7mmfan on June 14, 2022, 09:04:13 AM: Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on June 13, 2022, 03:53:31 PM
I've caught quite a few the last few years from Hunters all the way to Rice. This one had very distinct markings. I think it just got through spawning as it's stomach was empty. Here are a few from earlier years to show the markings of these Lake Roosevelt fish.

In general, what have you found in these fish when cleaning them? I've always been curious what they target.
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Post by: Angry Perch on June 14, 2022, 11:38:42 AM: I spent a lot of time as a kid wading the Snake River in Minnesota. Usually had stringer tied to my belt loop with the day's catch. Always a little unnerving with a northern swimming around your legs!
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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on June 14, 2022, 01:03:07 PM: Quote from: 7mmfan on June 14, 2022, 09:04:13 AM
Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on June 13, 2022, 03:53:31 PM
I've caught quite a few the last few years from Hunters all the way to Rice. This one had very distinct markings. I think it just got through spawning as it's stomach was empty. Here are a few from earlier years to show the markings of these Lake Roosevelt fish.

In general, what have you found in these fish when cleaning them? I've always been curious what they target.

Net pen rainbows. Of course so do the walleye...an 18 incher had an 8 inch rainbow in it's belly.