Any ideas what happened here...???

[Bush Rummager 4,707]

Spotted this bad boy parked up in the sick bay at the weekend. Guessing it was about 22/24" long.

Any ideas what's caused that wound on it??

I don't know a great deal about fish and fishing!!

Cheers..

[forest of dean redneck 11,636]

Bigger pike?

[fireman 10,930]

1 hour ago, Bush Rummager said:

Spotted this bad boy parked up in the sick bay at the weekend. Guessing it was about 22/24" long.

Any ideas what's caused that wound on it??

I don't know a great deal about fish and fishing!!

Cheers..

Didn't you just ask it what had happened?..

[Daniel cain 45,654]

Bigger bad boy,boat or bird of some sort...

[Nicepix 5,650]

Looks like a heron strike

[Bush Rummager 4,707]

Ah, right thanks. Never thought about the Heron strike.. probably a miss ID then on the Herons part if that was the case.

How big to Pike get over here then?? Would another behemoth bad boy tackle that 2 footer.. as in to actually eat the fuker??

[Nicepix 5,650]

If it were another pike there would multiple lacerations in two places, one for each jaw. It it were a catfish there would be large areas of scale loss and fin damage. The wound doesn't look like an otter bite either as that has two jaws and there would be another wound below.

Herons strike large fish through the back bone to kill it. Then if it is small enough they will swallow it head first. If not, they leave it and look for something else.

Pike out here grow to roughly the same size as in the UK. France is on the fringe of their range. Colder countries have the biggest pike.