Because it's not tasty or boneless fish that's why. I don't know why many people are so against northern pikes and muskellunges. Their excuse is that pikes eating all walleyes but in reality they just don't want to dealing with filleting the pikes and remove Y bones. Pike is actually very good to eat and the DNR is trying to encourage the anglers to keep more smaller pikes for frying and release larger pikes back in the waters.
I heard so many people say Pike is delicious, comparable if not better than Walleye and I still have yet to try either. I'm interested, Go on....
We're gonna be targeting a handful of different Monster-fish this weekend in various spots, and I just got a phone call saying Pike and Walleye are on that list now in a special spot I only get to hit once a year, usually
Aside from that, I'm infinitely looking to find better and new spots for Esox and Walleye in my area and new tactics for getting them besides a massive Chub or Sucker put 2ft-under a bobber and Xtra-sized lures. Mostly the issue is being able to target these guys from the banks and wading.....we don't end up in boats too often, but it happens here and there.