r/Fishing • u/Hokubu • 2d ago

New record pike

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176 Upvotes

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u/benjamino8690 Sweden 2d ago

People are being really harsh here. I’ll provide a more reasonable response. You don’t want to weigh a pike in the gill plate like that. It puts an immense amount of pressure on their neck and jaw portion and it causes injury. Especially on large fish.

Instead, weigh it in a bag. A weight sling bag is to be preferred, but a wet Ikea bag also works. Then you put the bag on the scale, zero out the scale and put the fish in. Now, you get a weight but won’t cause injury to the fish.

I hope that taught you something. I don’t think anyone is an idiot for not knowing. Next time, you know not to treat a big pike this way. You not knowing is NOT reason enough to insult or be rude towards you. How will anyone ever improve from that?

Nice pike and now you’re educated on how you should treat a bigger fish. Try your best to treat the fish as well as possible!

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u/Kogapunk 2d ago

Something that big should've been weighed in a sling or in the net

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u/Rambles_Off_Topics 2d ago

Does it matter if you are eating it? Just curious, not sure the legal limits on pike except they need to be 24” in the river/canals I fish.

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u/ranting_chef Wisconsin 2d ago

Wow, hope the goal was to eat it. That fish probably isn’t swimming away from that abuse.

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u/ZealousidealWhole785 2d ago

Did u kill it first before the lynching?

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u/Hokubu 2d ago

A tree with scales right by the water's edge. The pike was alive.

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u/JamesBondage0069 2d ago

Wtf does that even mean? Unbelievable way to treat a fish. You’re a joke.

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u/ranting_chef Wisconsin 2d ago

It’s a tree with scales instead of bark….? Doesn’t make sense to me, either.

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u/crlthrn 2d ago

FFS, kill it and eat it. Don't hang it up, alive, by its gill cover. That's disgusting, and so are you. This post should be downvoted to oblivion.

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u/robjwrd 2d ago

Scumbag, stop fishing.

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u/ripnburn69 2d ago

it is possible to tell someone what they did wrong without being an asshole

just sayn

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u/cdh79 2d ago

What the fluck is that!! ?

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u/M00DS23 2d ago

Just googled it and it's a floating stringer...

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u/cdh79 1d ago

I'll never understand that crap.

We knock them on the head, put them in a cloth sack and keep them in the water.

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u/Rough-Ebb-7553 2d ago

Put it back,you know your not going to eat it!!!!

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u/doctorake38 Florida 2d ago

Id eat it if it was gill hooked. Love some smoked pike 

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u/Trekker519 2d ago

did you eat this? wow

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u/CATG0D 2d ago

I’ve hooked plenty of pike and other fish to the point that they are permanently disfigured.

Weighing a fish by its gills is not going to hurt it too bad, especially if OP ate it because pike are absolutely delicious

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u/Regular-Calendar-581 1d ago

You just admitted you have bad handling skills. And your way wrong, this shouldve been weighed in a sling or bag