My Brother caught a River Monster Northern Pike yesterday evening...

[Yooperman]

These were two of the 4 he has caught over the last 2 days. I got there a bit late because I had to work ...but I did catch one.... a 12" Pike with 6" bait! lol



I have to land me one ... we are heading out on Wednesday again.

Since he had caught 2 the night before he gave me the big one tonight. Here it is on my kitchen table before I filleted it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow, that is one huge fish!

That'll feed you for a while. What do they taste like?

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Chicken.

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[Sekhmets Daughter]

5. Smart ass!

[Yooperman]

7. Pike are a great eating fish...

I would put them on par with Bass.... not as good as a good Brook Trout but when they are prepared properly they are delicious.

I use the breading mix from a company called "Shore Lunch".... it is light and really gives my Bass and Pike a great flavor.

YM

[HarveyDarkey]

11. Not as good as Walleye either, still my favorite eating fish.

That's a damn nice catch though, nice girth for a Northern.

[Yooperman]

12. Agreed... Walleye are pretty darn good...

Trout for me are the best though... nice native brookies are absolutely awesome.

[Scuba]

3. Watch out for the Y-bone.

[Yooperman]

8. Got that right...

I still haven't perfected filleting a pike.... but you just have to eat them carefully....

[Generic Brad]

9. Cut them into steaks

And after you have cooked it, grab the spine and all the bones come with it.

God, I love Northern Pike. They are my favorite tasting fish.

[Yooperman]

13. Yeah... I debated doing that....

But I didn't want to have to de-scale the thing...

Maybe the next one I will do that... We are heading to the same spot Wednesday evening.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Nice! But I think you're gonna need...

...a bigger bait.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

6. Hope they taste better than they look!

[hibbing]

10. chomp

Hi,
Wow, those look like monsters. I like the can of PBR in the one picture to give it some scale. Thanks for sharing these.

Peace

[Yooperman]

14. Thanks...

I was looking around the apartment for something that would be good to show the others to how big this guy really was. PBR seemed like a great choice. Then drank it down while I attempted to fillet the thing.

Peace right back at cha...

[pinboy3niner]

15. When you can drink your scale prop...

...I'd call that win-win.

[nomorenomore08]

16. What kind of fish are they most similar to, taste-wise?

Trout? Or more mild like a white fish?

[Yooperman]

18. Not trout...

I would say more like Bass or even Walleye.

[olddots]

17. Amazing catch -do they fight hard ?

I have only caught a G78 14 inch Poly Glass white wall tire in the Charles River near Boston ---it didn't taste like chicken .

where did he catch it ?

[Yooperman]

19. There is a large reservoir

in West Marquette county (Michigan's Upper Peninsula)

The name of the lake is Lake Michigamme and is about 5 or 6 miles long and a mile or so wide.

We were fishing one of the main rivers that feed into the lake. This time of the year the big Northerns swim upstream from the lake and if you happen to be there when they do... you have a chance to land one.

[Yooperman]

20. Oh...yes they put up quite a battle.... :-)

30 lb test line or more... steel leaders... and a large net are all standard materials needed.

He did have one break his line ... but they didn't get to see that one. It may have been a monster also... but he may have taken the line down to a log or some brush and got the line to break.

YM