The other day I caught a small northern pike sadly they aren't easy to come by by me does anyone know where I could buy one
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Where could I get one of these
- Thread starter PwNz I R COLE
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To my knowledge, the northern pike are not often raised in the fish farms....there was some issues with keeping northern pikes at the hatcheries.
Other than cannibalism (in both adults and juveniles), the pike populations doesn't need any help with stocking, therefore not too many hatcheries have northern pike in stock. The only two reasons why we have northern pike in the hatchery is because: they are using them for crossbreeding with muskellunges to produce tiger muskellunges and or stock northern pikes in the lakes that have winterkills & summerkills (but that is usually done with adult northern pikes most of times). Very few hatcheries rearing northern pike fingerlings but only for short time (we usually stock northern pike fingerlings in late spring/early summer where the rest of fish species were stocked in fall). That's how fast the northern pike fingerlings grow up, they will be 4-6 inches long already by June after the adult pikes spawned in mid April.
My advice is that you should wait till next spring to find a baby northern pike for sale. Or you can try find a redfin/grass pickerel, they are usually for sale at any time of year.
Well the pond is going to be about 25-30 ft long x 15 ft wide x 3 ft deep so I guess I go with a bunch of pickerel unless you guys think a pike will be ok in there
Just found a place selling pickerel here's the site http://www.aquaculturestore.com/Redfin-Pickerel.html
No it's not but I do not live by a lake stocked with them the closest body of water is the Rancocas creek and catching one from there would be a challenge