tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post3092311879357465881..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): "Throw 'em back"Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-38871594926063514522012-06-28T07:30:07.970-05:002012-06-28T07:30:07.970-05:00Muskie lakes tend to have few pike -- they get eat...Muskie lakes tend to have few pike -- they get eaten.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-57200127496449930062012-06-28T06:37:23.507-05:002012-06-28T06:37:23.507-05:00There might be a valid reason for that - over here...There might be a valid reason for that - over here in the UK we don't have muskie but we do have Esox Lucius, known to you as Northern Pike and to us simply as Pike.<br /><br />A number of 'managed' fisheries used to encourage the destruction, or at best relocation of large pike in an attempt to reduce the rate of predation on their managed stocks - carp primarily, but also bream, tench, roach, rudd, trout etc.<br /><br />I'm not familiar with Muskie, but pike are cannibalistic, with the number of juvenile pike being managed naturally by the bigger fish. So, remove the bigger fish - couple of years later you have a population explosion of mature fish, grown on from the smaller fish that enjoyed a lack of natural predators for the previous couple of years.<br /><br />Might be unrelated, but that's the mistake that some fisheries still make over here.<br /><br />However, if the post was about the 4' size limit rather than the theory behind it my apologies, but yeah - that's a big fish...Avid Anglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371344802758535267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-39341500581372247992012-06-27T16:42:00.650-05:002012-06-27T16:42:00.650-05:00"...We're gonna need a bigger boat."..."...We're gonna need a bigger boat."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com