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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 05:15 am |
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Flew 84 miles out to a lake today that's famous for big pike. Did well. Biggest fish I've ever caught...somewhere around 24#.
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 09:47 am |
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| Nice pike!! Do you keep and eat them? Have you ever had pickled pickerel or pike? The pickling completely disolves the bones - I mean completely. I have the recipe if you or anyone is interested. It is the best way to eat these very bony fish and it is delicious!
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 11:23 am |
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Dean,
I am interested.
Bill
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Lon E. Morris
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 01:12 pm |
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Rich,
I thought you drilled a hole in the ice, and then sat there with your "shitolator", and shot pike!
I love spring too! We just got rid of most of the snow and now are in for another 3 day seige. I am just about to go start the snow plow truck, and start cleaning the driveway. I am going to the "tea party" in Billings if I have to chain up and plow all the way. Lon
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John Dallas
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 01:30 pm |
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If I'm not mistaken the "TEA" in Tea Party is shorthand for "Taxed Enough Already"
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 02:36 pm |
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I kept a couple of smaller ones but we put these big females back in the lake. Not sure if that's the best thing. This lake is filthy with large pike it seems. Friends caught 16, 19, and 21 pounders out of these same holes last Saturday. I have not pickled them yet. I have infinite patience for picking bones out of them. I made a good meal last night of the trimmings of a friend fishing yesterday with me; he left more meat on the ice than he took home in trimming out all the bones. I just can't stand to waste an ounce if I can prevent it. Battered and pan fried pike is very hard to beat. I also bake or BBQ them wrapped in foil, which works well. Last night's fresh meal was the best pike I've ever had. Some of the big ones really stink when you cook them, though I've been told that if I skinned them it would help.
Lon: funny you should mention artillery fishing.... my only bag doing that was a nice salmon on Admiralty Island in 1981 using a .45-70.... it was an experiment in survival fishing and worked quite well despite me getting quite a shower out of the ordeal. Next time I won't stand on a log over a creek and shoot a fish right under my feet....
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 03:55 pm |
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| Not so long ago it was legal and and accepted to shoot spawnig pike in some states. High-power rifles were/are used for this and the object isn't to hit the fish but to create a shock wave in the water immediately beside the fish sufficient to stun it so it can pe picked up by the shooter who sneaks quietly through the shallows in waders.
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 04:27 pm |
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Good work Richard, that is a dandy pike. Another fish I've yet to fish for here in Michigan, gotta do that one of these days.
The only fish I ever shot was a great big carp. It was a slow day in the duck blind and it came cruising by so I gave it a load of high brass #6. Killed it deader than a wedge too, I was actually kinda surprised as it was at least a foot under the water.
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Dave.Furman
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Posted: Wed Apr 15th, 2009 09:19 pm |
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Dean Romig wrote: Not so long ago it was legal and and accepted to shoot spawnig pike in some states. High-power rifles were/are used for this and the object isn't to hit the fish but to create a shock wave in the water immediately beside the fish sufficient to stun it so it can pe picked up by the shooter who sneaks quietly through the shallows in waders.
Still is legal here, although not many people do it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 16th, 2009 02:33 am |
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Dave, where are you?
It was still legal in Vermont along the shores of Lake Champlain not so long ago, the "90's anyhow but I don't know if it's legal on the New York side or still in Vermont.
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Posted: Thu Apr 16th, 2009 01:53 pm |
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I'm in NW Vermont about 1/2 hr east of Burlington. It's still legal here but only on Lake Champlain, I believe only on the VT side. I believe our DEC has been trying to make it illegal for years but so far unsuccessfully. I think at this point there's so few people doing it that it makes no difference one way or another, but the annual "fish shooting" article in the burlington paper is sort of a rite of spring in itself--I'll try and find a link to the latest version.
edit: this is the most recent link I could find in a quick google search--predictably enough not a very flattering article
http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20040510/024871.html
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Posted: Thu Apr 16th, 2009 09:57 pm |
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| Dave,My brother lives in South Newfane. We have traveled up through the Lake Champlain area quite a bit and I have fished the lake many times for lakers and land locked salmon...Beautiful country..you are a lucky man!
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Posted: Fri Apr 17th, 2009 03:14 am |
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Richard,
Great photos and nice Pike, do you see many hungry Polar Bears when you fly into those remote fishing areas?...
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Fri Apr 17th, 2009 08:19 pm |
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Not yet, but it looks like I better keep an eye open over my shoulder out there this weekend!
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Sun Apr 19th, 2009 05:45 am |
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Didn't see any bears today Chris.... maybe you can change that with some magic???
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Posted: Sun Apr 19th, 2009 08:36 am |
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Richard,
You have more fun that the law should allow. I think I'm going steelhead fishing on Thursday but a drive to the Au Sable won't beat that fly in pike fishing trip for certain.
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Sun Apr 19th, 2009 02:52 pm |
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There are definite perks to living in Alaska and having your own wings..... You might not have thought so if you had been there and experienced the bitter north wind chill yesterday. I needed more layers. I sat out there for 7 hrs for 3 small pike. Couldn't completely filet my fish because my hands quit functioning in the process. Had to finish them at home on the counter. I tell you, fresh pan-fried pike filet is very hard to beat in my book. Have to get it all in as the snow is going fast. Will change to wheels soon but will still be able to land on the ice on a lake near this one and fish for trout. Trying to make the most of spring after a long cold winter of hibernation.
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Posted: Sun Apr 19th, 2009 03:31 pm |
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| Richard, are you using autogas with a Lycoming 0-360?
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Sun Apr 19th, 2009 06:00 pm |
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It's a 150HP narrow deck O-320. I burn 50/50 autogas/100LL and it works great. I never have to clean my plugs and I get 2800rpm full throttle level flight, which is 100rpm more than it should do. I love it. Lots of power.
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| Destry, I saw the clear rig for you at Bonham's sale three weeks ago in London: a pearly white London one-inch punt gun, 83-inch barrels, London proof, in fitted wooden case stencilled "Heavy Waterfowl Artillery" throwing a pound of shot.
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