In article , Alec Powell
wrote:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Russ, gave forth these words of wisdom:
I'm off fishing tomorrow morning. The drains near Ramsey, so hopefully
a few pike
Good luck Russ, and if you manage a 3-4 lb. jack then take it home.
Poach it in plain water with a few herbs added to give it a bit of a
flavour and serve it with a Hollandaise sauce. Lovely! Very
underestimated fish is the pike as far as eating is concerned, (although
some Irish and Polish think more highly of them than salmon :-)

Imo that's a bit small - still rather soft fleshed and not a lot of flavour.
Roughly 7lb is about right. The problem with pike (and most other coarse
fish) is that they pick up taint from their food - so unless you can get one
that you know has been eating clean-gravel feeders it's often disappointing.

Middle sized trout stream pike are often OK. (And the best size to take to
control the population.) There are a few waters around here where they allow
coarse fishing during the game closed seasons on condition that all pike are
killed. If you actually do kill the big ones you get hundreds of jacks.

Cheerio,

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