Pike Bite

[wslayer]

Learned many years ago...If you are going to keep pike, keep a whop stick handy and give'em a couple love taps before they come into the boat or in the ice house. Pike don't take prisoners and I don't either. Give them what they will give you and you will bleed less. Otherwise, cut the line, let'em do what they do, and move on to better things. Sucks you got blooded, but you can't begrudge them a shot at you when you started it by putting a bait in the water. Plan for a bar fight, come prepared, and enjoy the fillets. Fish On!!!

That's what I do in the winters is wack them in the noggin. Don't keep pike in the summer, but yes I did start it. :;:duel