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Pike and the law

  • 04-02-2003 1:11am
    #1
    Niall C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    That pike law needs to be changed in my opinion.

    So many people taking advantage of it and killing large quantities of huge pike, not for trophies, just for the sake of it.

    Nature got it right for thousands of years...

    Why cant we...


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  • #2
    pejwright
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭pejwright


    I agree with Niall, i've been fishing in my area for years and have always landed some lovely pike in my local river, but over the last year or two the pike i catch are gone......nice ones between 3 - 15lbs are obviously being caught and killed............for what reason i don't know


  • #3
    francie brady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭francie brady


    I think you'd agree that it's mainly forgeiners and mainly germans that kill our pike. Most are killed for been eaten, which is kinda ok. But i hate it when i find dead pike floating around.

    Not long now till i start doing some early mornings sessions for tench.


  • #4
    Niall C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Niall C


    I agree that a lot of the killing is done by foriegn anglers but its Irish people who are doing it too.

    Uneducated thinking really, some people actually believe that trout fishing will improve by killing pike, but it doesnt.

    It just makes way for larger stocks of small fish, too many small fish fighting for food, and also too many small pike, which are more of a threat to trout stocks, a larger pike will eat some jack pike.

    You only have to look at lakes like whitewood, large 30lb speciman pike lying on the railway tracks and on the bank.

    Sickening really.


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