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Post by Exerod on Mar 11, 2006 18:56:40 GMT -5
I was out salmon fishing today with a sparse 2 inch tube fly and connected with this  Not the best pic in the world and I am holding the net handle up high so the pic is taken looking down through the ring (30 inch diameter) so it doesn't give a true impression of her size. I measured her against the rod and she is 40 inches long and a bit porky with it! Anyone got any idea what she would weigh. When I go pike fly fishing I use much bigger bulkier flies but have never got one over 7lb so are they really necessary, or is this just a fluke ;D Tight lines Andy |
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Post by accony on Mar 11, 2006 20:47:29 GMT -5
At least 20lbs, possibly 23-24 Max.
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Is that a knotless net??
Colin
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Post by Exerod on Mar 12, 2006 4:10:57 GMT -5
Thanks for the estimate Colin  The net mesh is knotless. The knots you can see are where the mesh is knotted to the heavier cord on the ring. Tight lines Andy |
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Post by nicepix on Mar 12, 2006 9:37:41 GMT -5
I's obviously a rank stockie, all belly and no fins ;D Looks like she might be pregnant. The pre-spawning time usually means that pike are feeding heavily and are more prone to taking smaller lures. They'll be just as hungry after depositing their eggs. A lot of trout anglers suffer 'bite offs' from pike around April time usually when fishing damsel nymphs or lures. Unless I'm specifically clearing out a lake I don't pike fish until after the spawning. I do appreciate though that she was caught by accident. |
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Post by Piscator on Mar 14, 2006 16:03:58 GMT -5
The colouring would probably mean it is a she and she looks almost definately pregnant. Her little excursion to the bank will not have affected the young one chances of survival. That is more detrmined by how many other pike are in the water and how hungry they are!!
No mention of the fight, did she make a good account of herself?
Piscator
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Post by Exerod on Mar 15, 2006 13:15:31 GMT -5
No mention of the fight, did she make a good account of herself? Piscator No, do they ever? She was in the net within four mins. and most of that was trying to lift a dead weight from deep water. A 30" salmon kelt caught the same day went much better. To be fair I suppose you can't expect a fish heavy with spawn to go too well. Still a beauty though ;D Tight lines Andy |
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Post by muskie on Mar 17, 2006 12:53:19 GMT -5
The colouring would probably mean it is a she This fish will definately be a female as male pike very rarely reach more than 8lbs in weight. How would you sex a pike by colouring, as far as I know they both have the same colour. |
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Post by muskie on Mar 17, 2006 13:01:39 GMT -5
When I go pike fly fishing I use much bigger bulkier flies but have never got one over 7lb so are they really necessary, or is this just a fluke Hard to say for sure but when I swapped from using smaller (3-5") plugs & lures to using 6-12" ones the number of pike I caught increased quite dramatically, not always bigger fish but certainly plenty more of them. |
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Post by Piscator on Mar 19, 2006 11:57:56 GMT -5
I am no expert in Esox Lucius but the Pike I have caught from the rivers in Norfolk have been two distinct colours. The males (I presumed) are a darker green and more distinct in their colouration. The females (I also presumed) are paler in colour with softer or blurred edges to spots and changes in colours. interesting that I don't know the difference and ceratinly didn't know about the weight limits for male and females.
So I am no expert I was applying the difference between peacocks and peahens to pike. Males bright females less so. I may have been wrong to do this but the hen pike under the net looked like many of what I had presumed to be hen fish I had caught.
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Post by muskie on Mar 19, 2006 12:20:52 GMT -5
There may be some truth in the colouring but I've never heard it mentioned before.
I'm told small pike (under say 10lbs) are hard to sex accurately, apparently the best way is the shape of the vent. I think males are said to have a keyhole shaped vent while females have more of a pearshaped one. I've never actually looked.
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Post by Cidertastic on Mar 20, 2006 9:54:47 GMT -5
No mention of the fight, did she make a good account of herself? Piscator No, do they ever? She was in the net within four mins. and most of that was trying to lift a dead weight from deep water. Tight lines Andy Blimey! I had a pike of 30lb 4oz that took over 20 mins with a carp rod. A good 5 minutes of that was with the pike upstream of me. I would estimate 23-24lb too, if full of spawn, as it seems fairly broad across the shoulder. Congratulations on a lovely fish, don't balme you for not taking a close-up  |
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