yates Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 (edited) Our local reservoir has been closed to wild swimming after a pike bit the leg of one of the swimmer's. Apparently the 'monster' pike had been feasting on the local wildfowl population before deciding to take a bite of human flesh. Can't wait to see the influx of people wanting to catch the 'killer' fish. We're gonna need a bigger boat springs to mind Edited July 22, 2023 by yates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 Hello, it does happen , although not bitten my son's then wife was sat by the river Avon paddling her feet when a pike came up to bite her toes but quickly took her feet out, they thought it may have noticed the pink coloured toe nails ? , That must be a very big pike to take a big duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 They do attack on aggression but rare to take water foul, i would assume that it attacked a toe or other bodily extremity's. As a kid there was always the story in the village of the local pond having a swan eating monster, seems the story wasnt just in my village. They might dredge the pond now and kill all the fish just to appease the H&S plonkers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 26 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, it does happen , although not bitten my son's then wife was sat by the river Avon paddling her feet when a pike came up to bite her toes but quickly took her feet out, they thought it may have noticed the pink coloured toe nails ? , That must be a very big pike to take a big duck Hello, although not seen but I've read of pike taking smaller pike and ducklings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow white Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 I have seen pike take ducks so please don’t say it doesn’t happen because I have seen it a lot of coarse anglers see it happen but don’t take any notice because it happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 39 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, although not seen but I've read of pike taking smaller pike and ducklings 13 minutes ago, snow white said: I have seen pike take ducks so please don’t say it doesn’t happen because I have seen it a lot of coarse anglers see it happen but don’t take any notice because it happens Yes It certainly does happen and the larger female pike will happily take the smaller "Jacks" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph5172 Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 We used to fish a deep balancing pond using sticks and line as the roach would take corn off the surface. a fair few time a pike would stir the bottom and go for the silver fish. funny how quickly young lads can get their feet out the water. I only ever saw a pike face to face once as pulled my toes before I lost them. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 16 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Yes It certainly does happen and the larger female pike will happily take the smaller "Jacks" As a teenager in the 60s "jacks" were the favoured bait for large pike when fishing the gravel pits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 10 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Yes It certainly does happen and the larger female pike will happily take the smaller "Jacks" Definitely this ☝️👍 I've seen ducklings taken at the surface, and was once just about to net a small (1 1/2 lb) jack when a huge head appeared behind it (estimate mid 20's+) but turned away causing a huge vortex 😳 Have also caught the odd mid single figure Esox with obvious bite marks from a larger one. Also, for reference,,,, pikes teeth are extremely sharp and cause razor-like cuts ,,,, don't ask 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 quite believe it....heard several stories about cattle and sheeps noses being tweaked whe drinking in the edge of the river Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 I had some tasty quenelles de brochet in Avignon last month. Human revenge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted July 22, 2023 Report Share Posted July 22, 2023 I have seen quite a few waterfowl taken by pike when I have been fishing . pike normally sit on the bottom or on the edges and take a snap at anything that passes by but it’s common for ducklings to be taken mid pond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokingdragon Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 11 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Yes It certainly does happen and the larger female pike will happily take the smaller "Jacks" I saw a pike take a duckling on the Broads once, we were all watching the duck with her 4 offspring and then was a lot of splashing and then there were 3 duckings. We were on a boat and were about 2 meters away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 44 minutes ago, smokingdragon said: I saw a pike take a duckling on the Broads once, we were all watching the duck with her 4 offspring and then was a lot of splashing and then there were 3 duckings. We were on a boat and were about 2 meters away! We had a fairly big lake where I worked that was just over two miles long and once had a commercial duck decoy on the place , I knew the decoy keeper well and he once told me he was watching a Greylag goose going across the lake with it's family of half grown goslings when there was a comotion and a large Pike had took one under the water and was never seen again , Pike size , the fishing club would often catch them between 20 and 30 lb , when we had our shoot meal at the hotel I am pretty sure they had a cased one above the fire place that went around 30lb , one of the biggest Pike caught on the Broads was on Hickling Broad that went over 42 lb and at Thurne in 2009 one was caught that went over 45 lb , big enough to take a full size Mallard . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 45 minutes ago, marsh man said: We had a fairly big lake where I worked that was just over two miles long and once had a commercial duck decoy on the place , I knew the decoy keeper well and he once told me he was watching a Greylag goose going across the lake with it's family of half grown goslings when there was a comotion and a large Pike had took one under the water and was never seen again , Pike size , the fishing club would often catch them between 20 and 30 lb , when we had our shoot meal at the hotel I am pretty sure they had a cased one above the fire place that went around 30lb , one of the biggest Pike caught on the Broads was on Hickling Broad that went over 42 lb and at Thurne in 2009 one was caught that went over 45 lb , big enough to take a full size Mallard . was that fritton decoy boi ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 43 minutes ago, ditchman said: was that fritton decoy boi ? Certainly was , and the keeper then was Walter Musset , he then went keepering at Morningthorpe before coming back as the lake manager . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 16 hours ago, Yellow Bear said: As a teenager in the 60s "jacks" were the favoured bait for large pike when fishing the gravel pits. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 The pond we grew up by lost a lot of ducklings most years to the pike. Closing a reservoir is just funny, it's not exactly Lake Placid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmm243 Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 3 hours ago, old man said: 👍 My Dad has caught 3 pike over 30lb. Always maintained the best bait for a big pike was a smaller one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirokuMK70 Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 If that's all it takes to close waters to wild swimming I'm going to train more attack pike... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 20 hours ago, Yellow Bear said: As a teenager in the 60s "jacks" were the favoured bait for large pike when fishing the gravel pits. 3 minutes ago, gmm243 said: My Dad has caught 3 pike over 30lb. Always maintained the best bait for a big pike was a smaller one. I lost one of my biggest out of Loch Allen using a Jack about 1lb. i know its always the one that got away but ive had some decent pike over 20 but this one never gave me a chance and ripped line off the reel at a stupid rate. I jumped out of the water around 50-75 yards out and that was it lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted July 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 2 hours ago, Mice! said: The pond we grew up by lost a lot of ducklings most years to the pike. Closing a reservoir is just funny, it's not exactly Lake Placid. Must agree with you there. It's Thrybergh Country Park in Rotherham its Council owned. They have a history of making strange decisions. Sadly for us it was our local trout water until three years ago until they closed it to focus on more community engaging activities. As a club we used to pike net the water in the winter and we used to catch some huge specimen pike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 1 hour ago, yates said: Must agree with you there. It's Thrybergh Country Park in Rotherham its Council owned. They have a history of making strange decisions. Sadly for us it was our local trout water until three years ago until they closed it to focus on more community engaging activities. As a club we used to pike net the water in the winter and we used to catch some huge specimen pike My old fella always said you need a number of pike for a healthy water, he never agreed with people killing Jack's just because they'd caught them. And he used to catch some decent pike through the winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 2 hours ago, MirokuMK70 said: If that's all it takes to close waters to wild swimming I'm going to train more attack pike... I'll second that one ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted July 24, 2023 Report Share Posted July 24, 2023 On 22/07/2023 at 21:08, JKD said: Have also caught the odd mid single figure Esox with obvious bite marks from a larger one. Happens a lot around spawning. 15 hours ago, gmm243 said: My Dad has caught 3 pike over 30lb. Always maintained the best bait for a big pike was a smaller one. That's no mean feat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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