Pike For The Pot?

[jonnie bravo 572]

Well gents the trout season has ended and with it so has my supply of fish. I regularly fished on my membership taking a couple of brownies once a month or so.

 

The only other freshwater fish I'm legal to take is jack pike upto 5lbs, and with the nights drawing in a bit of dead baiting in the dark would be on the cards.

 

Has anyone taken them for the pot? Any good? And any tips re prep?

 

Shame I can't take grayling as I imagine they would be a good eat

[mushroom 12,879]

Pike is good eating but feckin filled with sharp bones.

 

Pike curry is particularly good

[David.evans 5,323]

pike , i tryed it years ago, and tbh found it shit , very earthy, and boney

a mate of mine told me to soak in salt water for 24 hrs , but that was no good either!

have ago mate but i bet it ends up in the bin or the cats have it lol

atb

Dave

[mackem 26,262]

 

Shame I can't take grayling as I imagine they would be a good eat

Grayling arent bad,but not as good as chalk stream brownies.

[Mister Gain 1,764]

Wasn't particularly impressed with it to be honest, but to be fair I took it from a small stillwater which was an old clay pit and it was never a clear water.

As has already been said, be aware of the row of very sharp bones along the lateral line, they are shaped like a pitch fork, as well as the usual normal bones. I seasoned mine with salt and pepper and baked it in foil in the oven. I tasted a bit and it tasted 'pondy' so I knocked up a cheese sauce, which made it slightly better. Should imagine one from a clean, clear gravel pit or clear river would be a bit better. It's probably got something to do with the fact that us british generally ate seafish, but plenty of europeans eat them, even seen a few of the TV clebrity chefs cook them. Floyd, Fearnly-Whittingstall, Stein.

[jonnie bravo 572]

Cheers for the replies gents. I've got 2 potential spots for them one being the canal and the other slow flowing silty river. Guess I will just try one and see what it's like then.

[mushroom 12,879]

Wouldn't eat one out of the canal mate

[Blackbriar 8,569]

Gordon Ramsay serves pike at his restaurant. Shouldn't imagine he gets it out of the Manchester Ship canal, mind !

What have you got to lose ?

 

 

I'd give it a go - try anything once, me ! (Except for Morris dancing and incest !).

[northern lad 2,292]

Very boney/earthy,however if a decent perch accidently picked up your deadbait they are excellent eating,grilled with butter on them

[Alan... 172]

Too boney

[Mark r 208]

as a keen carp and pike angler I couldn't think on anything worse than eating a pike I love catching them but eating them looks as tough as old boots.

[jocky 198]

should not be killing them now days. thats why there is no size limit on rod licences any more.and thats why there is very few big pike left. it bad enough the polish killing them.

[Raymond 618]

love the pike catch and release so for pigiron sake I ate one from a large lake. It was lovely the bones where a bit of a neucance but the lumps of white flesh was well worth it. I gutted it cut the head and tail of it. Left skin on. I put it in tinfoil and baked it in the oven.Before I sealed the edges of the tinfoil I put everything into it to flavour it up. I put a big lump of butter some sliced tomatoes and thinly sliced onions. I put a few herbs in aswell. It was lovely

[hawki 1,431]

Fooking nackers eating pike hope use find a dead rat in one

 

you lot are as bad as the poles

[northern lad 2,292]

Cant stand the "smash it on the head and throw it up the bank" mentality....but knocking a 4/5lb jack on the head on a well stocked water isn't going to do much damage in the grand scheme of things Anyone tried boil in the bag Barbel??