Lake Oahe Pollock SD

[rodcontrol]

cleithra bone of a pike can be used to age like a tree.

 

[Chas'n Tail]

What a beast! I can't imagine that would fit through even an 8 inch hole. maybe, a 10 inch.

 

[camoman]

That thing must be 20 years old or better. How do you age a fish?

For pike you can use either the cleithra (a jaw bone) or an otolith. Both mean killing the fish.

 

[guywhofishes]

can't believe he kept a good spawner - what a little jerk

#$%^&>

 

[tikkalover]

There you go again, you :;:stirthepot you. You should change your name to guywhostirsshitup! ;:;boozer

 

[guywhofishes]

a guy on Facebook made the spawner remark on the page that was posted - ha ha

I couldn’t believe it

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the fish of a lifetime and he's ragging about spawning.... with a northern

 

[Kurtr]

Ya i saw some idiots doing that last night to. Take a picture they said. They can go pound sand

 

[tikkalover]

Yep, if I caught something that big it would be at the taxidermist the next day, if not the same day/night I caught it. Even at $15 an inch that's $700 I would gladly spend. I don't like replicas so it would be the real one going.

 

[dean nelson]

especially since that big boy is no longer going to be going after minnows he's going to be going after your eater walleyes and other fish of that size. I know the Game and Fish reported a few years ago that fish to 18 pounds were now common in the lake and there was a huge year class of trophy pike that we would be playing with for some time to come. Keep meaning to go down there and actually target them but walleyes always seem to get in the way.

 

[Rowdie]

Id like to know what that thing has been feeding on, but maybe the answer is Everything! I have caught quite a few cisco's down on Oahe this year while ice fishing.

4 and 5 lb walleye

 

[luvcatchingbass]

 

[LBrandt]

That things got jaws like my first mother-in-law.

 

[Fishmission]

Dream fish. Makes my 22 look puny

 

[snow]

Wow! looks like one of those european pike that pops up once in while,what a beast.