Attention Yukon Mike...anybody else

Jay Anglin

Jay Anglin

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I swear you posted this pic last year. As I recall it was a friend of yours from down this way somewhere that had hooked these two.

I got this from a client today and of course there was an accompanying story about how this happened on Rainey Lake. While I don't doubt the well known habit northern have to eat other fish that are seemingly too large...I have some doubts about the other photo and it's context in the story. This is supposed to be a 54 inch 44lb northern. A)It doesn't look like Rainey Lake to me, B)The appears to be wearing Euro rain gear and C) If I was a betting man I'd say that's a "zander" from Europe...maybe Sweden. My bet is that this is another typical internet BS story.

Anybody remember this one?

Jay

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That ain't no zander, they look just like a walleye. I think the two are different fish. The one in the boat does look to be european, could be Sweden. Looks like it could even be a brackish water pike, they get some huge ones in northern Europe. As my niece would say "That is ginormous!"

Tim
 
Oh, that's right...the zander is the walleye looking deal...DUH. I thought they had some whacky name for pike too. Zhiramisku....tchkimstchlac....pheitish kin nimps....Span....Narlu....something like that. That looks saltish to me....are those breakers in the background?
 
It does look like breakers in the backgound. That and the gear makes me think it is the Baltic or North Sea area.
I quick found a european pike site and saw no other names for them. Here on the first page of a site hammerhandle, snake, gator, slimer and snot rocket would have all been used before pike.

Tim
 
Yeah, but in a surrogate ocean, you'd have surf breakin', doncha know???

bwahahaha!

It does look like breakers in the backgound. That and the gear makes me think it is the Baltic or North Sea area.
I quick found a european pike site and saw no other names for them. Here on the first page of a site hammerhandle, snake, gator, slimer and snot rocket would have all been used before pike.

Tim
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It's not a fish at all. It's a legless Crocogator. There are many of these lizards in eastern North Carolina. People have been siting them ever since we began using nuclear power generators. They say that they are mean sumbitches and will eat most anything including coots,mergansers and possums.

Little bit of science goes along way huh ?
Best,
Harry
 
Hmmm.... I have seen both these pictures before. The first one was sent to me by Jane's brother and he claimed he took it. It might be from Rainy Lake, but he lives on Lake of the Woods. He also has been known to bullshit once in a while.

The second one I saw hanging in the Yukon Fish and Game Association office downtown. The girl told me it was a local fish picture, but I don't know. I doesn't look like any place around here I've ever seen. The guys were definately after pike or muskies from the looks of their tackle box. It is a pig, that's for sure. The bigger pike me and Mac have caught here weren't nealy that fat looking. We catch alot of high 30" ers and I've caught one 43", him a 44", and their heads were as wide as my handspan, about 8". That thing is massive.

Mike
 
I don't know about the second photo, could be a photo shop job. Every pike I have ever caught flopped it's way around in the bottom of the boat. With a fish that big (relative to the man with it on his lap) I'd be afraid of loosing a hand (or worse!)

Chuck
 
Ditto on the lost body parts... I think I would want to club or shoot or otherwise incapacitate a toothy critter of that size before bringing them in the boat. I have caught a few big pike ( every one in a duck boat!) and they are fairly active after hitting the deck, something that big could nock you overboard! Nothing I have caught ever measured up to that one, Pike anyways....
 
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