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skoda
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 Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:25 pm Post subject: pikes in saltwater |
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a friend of mine sent me this video of a special place in northern germany that is called pike capital - funny thing its a part of east see wich is ocean water and pikes live in there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re5QrTJlkhs&feature=related
crazy size of those fish and in saltwater !  |
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kman
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volume4130
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| If they're salty, does that make them part shark??? |
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goldpinhunter
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| i never knew. that is pretty cool actually. makes me wonder if the pike in our local river systems hang out in brackish water at all. i just assumed they wouldn't. |
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skoda
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:47 am Post subject: |
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If they're salty, does that make them part shark??? |
put your hand in its mouth and tell us 
he calls them crocodiles |
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tunameltdown
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| goldpinhunter wrote: | | i never knew. that is pretty cool actually. makes me wonder if the pike in our local river systems hang out in brackish water at all. i just assumed they wouldn't. |
They do. I know plenty of people who have caught pike and striped bass in the the same brackish water rivers. Any river with a good herring run is a good place to start. |
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volume4130
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| skoda wrote: |
put your hand in its mouth and tell us
he calls them crocodiles |
Haha...crocodiles is a good one too...nasty buggers! |
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weldinghank
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| tunameltdown wrote: | | goldpinhunter wrote: | | i never knew. that is pretty cool actually. makes me wonder if the pike in our local river systems hang out in brackish water at all. i just assumed they wouldn't. |
They do. I know plenty of people who have caught pike and striped bass in the the same brackish water rivers. Any river with a good herring run is a good place to start. |
that would be the merrimac river. even the upper part of the river (above essex dam in lawrence) has a healthy pike population. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some bigguns down closer to the mouth. |
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basshunter62
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| dosent bass pro have stripers in the fish tank in foxboro???? |
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weldinghank
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| basshunter62 wrote: | | dosent bass pro have stripers in the fish tank in foxboro???? |
I believe so, they are able to survive in both fresh and saltwater.
Lots of decent sized stripers are caught just below the essex damn in lawrence during the herring run. |
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thorn168
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| Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Northern Pike are more like freshwater Barracudas then sharks, IMO.
I just got finished reading the book "Knowing Bass" and it seems like freshwater fish actually prefer brackish water versus completely freshwater. It seems that freshwater fish perspire salt, so living in a brackish environment helps them maintain their salt balance. |
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