GIANT NORTHERN PIKE!

[Headrush]

Check out these pics. Got them from a retired DEC (dept of environmental conservation) Captain my dad goes ice fishing with. Anyway... This pike supposedly hit a smaller pike as it was being reeled in to the fisherman's boat!

It measured 54 inches long (60 inches is 5 feet!!!) and weighed 44 lbs. I never saw it but the pics are all you need to see

NOW...has anyone ever kept a Northern as their Monster Fish? What size tank would it need?

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

pics been around for a long time but i always love seeing it again!

 

[Headrush]

pics been around for a long time but i always love seeing it again!

Cool this is the first time I've seen it. I know they grow big around here but never saw one even close to that big. Someone else has a northern on their avatar but I can't remember who. maybe they'll chime in

 

[CichlidAddict]

Cool pics but I think they're from 2 different sources.

 

[Euge]

woah crazy pics. What makes yuou think they're from 2 different sources?

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

I could be wrong, because I haven't fished in years, but that fish looks like a muskellunge to me, not a northern pike. I always thought that northern pike were smaller and darker in color. Anybody else have an opinion on that?

 

[Connor0729]

i think that i'm the one with the pike avatar mine is 39 inches, and that is pretty big for a pike. and that isn't a musky, muskies have stripes, not spots. that thing is gonna cost a ton to get mounted, lol

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

i think that i'm the one with the pike avatar mine is 39 inches, and that is pretty big for a pike. and that isn't a musky, muskies have stripes, not spots. that thing is gonna cost a ton to get mounted, lol

Thanks for that clarification Connor. Like I said, I haven't been fishing in years. I used to be all about fishing when I was a kid, and I remembered that there was a difference in the two, I just couldn't remember exactly.

I DO know that that is one monstrous pike!

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

I could be wrong, because I haven't fished in years, but that fish looks like a muskellunge to me, not a northern pike. I always thought that northern pike were smaller and darker in color. Anybody else have an opinion on that?

The problem is that I don't know where that pike was caught. I find that each region have different colour pikes. Some are extremely dark, some are "tanned", a few will be brownish-red and others are green yet they are not grass or redfin pickerels nor muskies.

If you think that is big, wait until you see some of the slow-growers up in the North. They make our local pikes in Alberta look like babies and a lot of Americans think ours are huge.

I wouldn't really recommend keeping a pike in a tank, unless it is chilled at a very low temperature and feed it irregularly to stunt down the growing rate. Even then, in that conditions, coldwater pikes live longer and thus grow bigger than some of the cool and warm water pikes.

 

[Headrush]

i think that i'm the one with the pike avatar mine is 39 inches, and that is pretty big for a pike. and that isn't a musky, muskies have stripes, not spots. that thing is gonna cost a ton to get mounted, lol

Right On Connor you are the winner. I was refering to your avatar. Nice Pike! How much did it weigh? 44 lbs sounds like a stretch but who knows, that friggin thing is HUGE! Can't fish for them around here until May, unless you're ice fishing the Finger Lakes, Great Lakes and their bays(Lake Ontario)...can't wait!! I've seen a lot of them pulled through the ice over the years.

Sorry, but its not a musky, they have stripes and get even bigger than northerns do. Connor's right