Pike For The Pot?

[Fellman Mark 607]

I've had it was badly hooked more or less swallowed the dead bait when I was taking a piss so it came home I gutted it then cut the head and tail off for the ferrets and wrapped it in foil cooked it in the oven with veg garlic and butter it was nice although very boney really meaty fish give it ago you never know

[leegreen 2,221]

 

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.

 

You only eat stocked chalk stream Brownies .

[hawki 1,433]

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

 

you lot are as bad as the poles

Have a look at this i hope use choke on a rat use hungry pigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMGgJTc_NzI

 

 

see who will be swapping cooking tips now :laugh:

[leegreen 2,221]

How skint must you be to consider eating pike lol

I was selling Pike over 30 years ago for £1/lb to my Fathers friend who had a fish mongers off Curzon street (Minch & Co). They wanted fish 4lb-8lb I think the Jews were eating them.

I love my food and I definitely ain't skint .

[northern lad 2,292]

How skint must you be to consider eating pike lol

Wrapped in foil on a campfire on the side of a loch,nom,nom,nom

[Mark r 208]

With all the foreigners killing them the scrubbas you shouldn't killing them as well, and besides a water with pike in is a healthy water they mop up the dead and injured fish before eating all the live ones

[jocky 198]

well said mark r. there natures way of stopping fish diseases spreading. if you kill jacks you could still be killing a female fish, that could grow to a good size.. if there does get to many pike in a water they will eat there own to sub stain a health balance of fish to feed on.

[tomburras 2,730]

pike from the canal iv seen them in leeds fish market

[tillylamp 1,839]

pike/perch and the mention of grayling...... what ever next, catch and release these magnificent predators, its bad enough with the foreigners taking all sorts fish.

[jonnie bravo 572]

Some interesting replies to this thread.

 

There seems to be two main sticking points to this thread.

 

1. Killing a magnificent fish

 

I agree that pike are great, I have enjoyed catching them for years. But in my eyes they are part of an ecosystem, much like a fox. If I struggled to catch pike then I wouldn't take fish from that water as they clearly are low on numbers. If someone said on THL that you shouldn't hunt foxes? I was expecting a more open minded response to be honest.

 

2. Few of you would entertain eating pike

 

Again seems a little closed minded, other than those that have actually tried it. A few have said urgh with no experience in trying it?

 

I'm no EE and I don't believe in taking everything out of a water like some I have seen but taking the odd fish for the pot is well within my rights as a fisherman and sensitively done can have a positive impact on the water as can predator control in other ecosystems but you guys already understand that right?

[northern lad 2,292]

With all the foreigners killing them the scrubbas you shouldn't killing them as well, and besides a water with pike in is a healthy water they mop up the dead and injured fish before eating all the live ones

Wrong Who told you they "mop up sick and injured fish before eating live ones",thats absolute nonsence.....have you ever done much piking?Some days they love a deadbait,other days its live or nothing....and before someone points out a livebait is an "injured"fish and behaving like one,depending how you hook them/rig you use, they act very much like a healthy fish ,some waters season in and out I can fish and not get a sniff on a deadbait,and vice versa.Dont get the impression Im for the killing of all pike,I was into pike conservation from the early eighties,made my own unhooking mat(couldn't buy them then) and got rid of the "All pike must be removed from the water" rule on the fishery I was bailiff on.Having said that,on a prolific water with a lot of jacks in ,removing a 5lb,er for the pot now and then will do no harm and possibly do some good by removing some of the competition for prey fish (the poorly ones ),which are needed by the bigger pike Removing large pike from a water is a definite no no,the jack population thrive with less threat from a larger predator,also removing them to stock another water invariably ends in disaster,they do not adapt to new surroundings/environment well at all,more often than not going belly up emaciated, over weeks/months

[darbo 4,776]

ive eaten grayling cooked in a fish kettle very tasty tried perch not bad never tried pike.

[green lurchers 16,855]

how can you eat the lady of the stream such an amazing fish the only case for eating pike is if you've gut hooked it and if you gut hooked it you shouldn't be fishing for pike again for research purposes in the kitchen a tasty dish can be made for all coarse fish

[BrianSteven72 369]

Ffs its bad enough the EE killing our fish without us doing it too ,, there's very little or no pike in any of my local waters because of this !!!

[pjmc 90]

May god rest my grand mother she was a serious woman in the kitchen and i can rember many and manys the time her cookin pike when i was a child but 1 main thing i do rember about it is it would stink the house with the smell of it.but rolled in flour and fried it was more than eatable.of course ur doin no harm taking an odd fish for the table