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10-06-2013, 06:43 AM #1
back in the early 80's
I indeed caught one of those blues on a jig.
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10-07-2013, 04:23 PM #2
I don't have the time it would take to tell you about all the blue pike stories but I am 77 years old and upon returning from Texas in 1950, my dad, his brother, his best friend and I would launch at Avon point where my dad kept his boat. We would run out an estimated 2 miles, drop a plumbob(Lead weight 6 oz) to verify rock bottom. drop anchor, light the Coleman lantern as it got dark, fish with crawlers until the minnows came in. We would drop a 3/4 oz bell sinker below 2 baited No.4 hooks and fill 2 wet bushel size burlap sacks with blue pike before 10 PM. Lights on shore would guide us home. The only instrument on the dash was a compass.
The fish were scaled, fileted and tossed in the frig until the weekend when the family and friends would gather for the best fish fry on earth. My mom and aunt would dip the filets in egg, roll them in saltine cracker crumbs and fry them in Crisco. The taste was unbelievable and according to health experts I should have died a long time ago.
I will take full responsibility for my family and friends contributing to the demise of the Lake Erie blue pike.
A note of interest. We killed the fish by breaking their necks before throwing them in the burlap. My dad said it was the humane thing to do and less adrenalin was released so the fish tasted better. To this day, I kill the fish before they even leave the net. Does anyone else do this???Last edited by Dr.Ed; 10-07-2013 at 04:39 PM. Reason: Additional text
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10-07-2013, 07:11 PM #3
Dr. Ed, Popeye, or any else who caught blue pike. From what you remember, how did the physical characteristics of the blue pike compare with the walleye we have in Erie today?
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10-08-2013, 06:27 AM #4
To be perfectly honest I couldn't tell you what they looked like .( I was 8 years old at the time, 67 now ) . But I can remember spending many quality evenings with my father and brother out on the lake . I do remember that they didnt get as big as the walleye's . And that they and perch were a very big part of our diet .
Our fishing was done off of Cleveland and Avon (Charlies Boat rental ) and that we didn't have to go out very far to catch them .
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10-08-2013, 08:28 AM #5
What I remember about the blue pike in the '50's (and it seems like yesterday) is a pale blue-grey color, no hint of yellow, the same glass eyes and no white tag on the tail. They were very aggressive running thru the minnow school under the Coleman lantern which was suspended over the water by a homemade 3' metal rod anchored in the oar lock. The biggest blue pike I remember was about 18 inches and we caught virtually thousands of them in the dark 2 miles north of Avon Point. I loved to jig the minnow baits just below the minnow school. My dad, uncle and friends preferred fishing 2'-3' off the bottom which I recall to be 40' down. I remember that we rarely had trouble finding a hard rock bottom and the pike and when we did it was game on.
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10-28-2013, 01:18 PM #6
More info.
Not exactly extinct! Just rare as they are considered albinos! This link should help you out some.
http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...pic,889.0.html
Just so you know there is also a blue color phase of the yellow perch. These 2 links should help you out.
http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/discuss/...n.html#msg7661
http://thebeacon.net/local-news/item/3600/3600Wakina
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10-28-2013, 01:19 PM #7
I tried to post these links back when this thread was active but something went wrong and I was not able to login to this site until today on my desktop, I won't try to post links from my phone so I had to wait.
One more!
Scroll thru the pics in this thread!
http://ohiogamefishing.com/community...d.php?t=108317Last edited by wakina; 10-28-2013 at 01:29 PM. Reason: posted to soon!
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