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Monster Pike caught in Netherlands

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    bitemybanger
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    And on a lure:eek:
    There has to be a couple of those lurking within Emerald waters.
    We've all herd the "one that got away" tales.


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    Decoy
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    It's obviously a very big fish (congrats to the captor) but I'm not fully convinced on the length/weight. As is the case with many continental anglers the pics appear to have been taken with a wide-angle lens which distorts the perspective.


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    ironbluedun
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    Cyprinus Carpio wrote: »
    It's obviously a very big fish (congrats to the captor) but I'm not fully convinced on the length/weight. As is the case with many continental anglers the pics appear to have been taken with a wide-angle lens which distorts the perspective.

    i did think there was something a little odd about that photo, not sure what it is.


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    Kess73
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    bitemybanger wrote: »
    And on a lure:eek:
    There has to be a couple of those lurking within Emerald waters.
    We've all herd the "one that got away" tales.



    I'm banking on that. :D


    There is a big girl in Lough Derg that I have been trying to catch for a few years now.

    Have seen her before and would put her in the high 30's or low 40's range. She made bits of a smaller pike I had hooked when she hit it close to the boat.

    She was bigger than any pike I have caught in my life, and bigger than any pike I have seen others catch in real life, and on par with some monsters that I have seen in pictures.


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    Gillysome
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    Andip wrote: »
    Check this one out - 50lb+ & 130cm long - in my dreams !

    Site is in Dutch, but the photos say it all.....

    http://www.metersnoeken.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1574&Itemid=26

    What a catch:eek::eek::eek: Its at least double the size of my biggest pike. What did it weigh in at? My dutch isnt as good as it should be:pac:


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    bitemybanger
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    Kess73 wrote: »
    I'm banking on that. :D


    There is a big girl in Lough Derg that I have been trying to catch for a few years now.

    Have seen her before and would put her in the high 30's or low 40's range. She made bits of a smaller pike I had hooked when she hit it close to the boat.

    She was bigger than any pike I have caught in my life, and bigger than any pike I have seen others catch in real life, and on par with some monsters that I have seen in pictures.

    If anywhere has the potential to throw out a mahoosive fish it would be somewhere along the Shannon system.

    The current record was caught in a trout lake stocked with rainbows that dosnt allow coarse fishing so easy for pike to get very big very quickly.


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    beer enigma
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    Gillysome wrote: »
    What a catch:eek::eek::eek: Its at least double the size of my biggest pike. What did it weigh in at? My dutch isnt as good as it should be:pac:

    Estimated at 57lbs but unweighed, so difficult to say either way


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    Gillysome
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    Andip wrote: »
    Estimated at 57lbs but unweighed, so difficult to say either way

    Either way catch of a life time. Dont know what these dutch pike are eating to get so big. There are some pics of some equally impressive pike on the net. If i keep saying my prayers hopefully someday one like these will grace my landing net:pac:


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    Bizzum
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    bitemybanger wrote: »
    The current record was caught in a trout lake stocked with rainbows that dosnt allow coarse fishing so easy for pike to get very big very quickly.

    Hard to beat a stocked game fishery to grow big pike.
    As pike angling is getting more popular and pike being better regarded as a great sporting fish, It mightn't be that long before the current irish recodr is broken.
    There are big fish turning up in many places, I'v no doubt that a nice few 30+s are out there. It doesn't take take that huge a leap to get to 40lb.
    Indeed Im sure there are 40s out there too.
    Just make sure your scales are certified and you've a witness!


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    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
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    Bizzum wrote: »
    Hard to beat a stocked game fishery to grow big pike.

    true, but they look fat!


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    Bizzum
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    Callan Aggressive Doorbell wrote: »
    true, but they look fat!
    They usually are fat! and not to old either.
    The way you or I would look if we dined on silver service every day!
    A 5 or 6 year old hen pike in these type of conditions will be a big big girl.


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