Big Northern Pike caught fishing in Michigan

My girlfriend hooked this pike on an $11 spincast combo from walmart with a small piece of leafworm from directly underneath our boat (no leader). Thinking the fish would break free I took the pole while she took a few pictures and this video (no sound). We didn't have a net or gloves so we were very unprepared. We did eventually land it though :-). She was also startled by a swan flying directly at the boat during the video. The last picture shows how fat the fish was.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Northern
• Pike
• Fishing
• Michigan
• Big
• Huge

[1963Luisito]

Why didn't you set it free? Did you cook it? Is pike eatable? Isn't its meat tasteless and it has a load of spines? Perhaps smoked is good...

[JDFlegel]

I wish we could have released it. I just kind of grabbed it by the gill, dropped it in the boat and it flopped around which caused it to loose a lot of its slime coat. It would have suffered if we released it. This was quite a long time ago and we really were not ready to handle a fish that big. It is unfortunate that it had to die but it did taste good(of course we cooked it). Also there is no way she would've held it while it was alive. I release almost all of the fish I catch.

[hardcorehuntinginc]

@JDFlegel Well they have 2 sets of bones they have both rib bones as well as a y bone. Its not really shaped like a y more of an L but its a different set of bones other then the rib bones

[JDFlegel]

@hardcorehuntinginc I think they meant the y bones when they said rib bones...

[hardcorehuntinginc]

@robertandchristina bs they have a y bone as well.

[1963Luisito]

@JDFlegel All rigth, I had no idea pike was edible, here in my country people are not used to eat it, in fact most people think it is not edible at all and everybody releases it. Here pikes do not grow as big as in the US, I envy you for having such a big monsters.

[robertandchristina]

Pike are delicious!!! The only bones are the rib bones.

[iDoWutiWant1]

nice fish!! good work!

[etcady]

ya i guess its a good catch

[AppleFan2831]

Great catch! I loved the song too! :)