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Davy North
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My dear old Auntie brought my attention to this one, as I missed it, I wondered if anyone else had seen the news item. However I think it may just have been a local NE news thing.
I don't really have to go into detail because you'll know the kind of story. This lake had been terrorised by a "HUGE" pike, of course it's always only one. This monster was eating "ALL" the ducks. Not to mention taking the odd nibble at kiddies fingers.
Strange that no dogs were mentioned, can't have been much of a pike if it only attacked kids and ducks?
Anyway for some reason the lake had been drained and the monster was found dead! The reporter apparently said they didn't know why it had died, maybe old age or over feeding (maybe it had been snaffling a few dogs on the side). No one seemed to think it might have been because the pond had been drained!
The body was then displayed, with close ups of the jaws and teeth.
When I asked my aunt haw big it was she only held her hands about three feet apart. As I said I missed the item, but maybe the monster wasn't so huge after all. I tried to tell her that it was a load of crap, but unfortunatly the answer I got was "oh no, it was on the telly".
Joking aside these stories get my back up, and I 'm sure other pike anglers as well. It's all very similar to the story about the duck eating catfish a few months back. They don't do the image of these fish any good at all.
I have mentioned before that in my area since the Tees barage was put in pike have started to show in good numbers on the lower river. We've already had clubs change their rules to let anglers kill pike. We have also had people carring out their own private culls, these are matchmen, to protect "their" fish stocks. To be honest there are some very stupid people around.
All we need now is the cry to go up "will some body think about the ducks!".
I just thank God that the film about a man eating pike never came to fruition.
I don't really have to go into detail because you'll know the kind of story. This lake had been terrorised by a "HUGE" pike, of course it's always only one. This monster was eating "ALL" the ducks. Not to mention taking the odd nibble at kiddies fingers.
Strange that no dogs were mentioned, can't have been much of a pike if it only attacked kids and ducks?
Anyway for some reason the lake had been drained and the monster was found dead! The reporter apparently said they didn't know why it had died, maybe old age or over feeding (maybe it had been snaffling a few dogs on the side). No one seemed to think it might have been because the pond had been drained!
The body was then displayed, with close ups of the jaws and teeth.
When I asked my aunt haw big it was she only held her hands about three feet apart. As I said I missed the item, but maybe the monster wasn't so huge after all. I tried to tell her that it was a load of crap, but unfortunatly the answer I got was "oh no, it was on the telly".
Joking aside these stories get my back up, and I 'm sure other pike anglers as well. It's all very similar to the story about the duck eating catfish a few months back. They don't do the image of these fish any good at all.
I have mentioned before that in my area since the Tees barage was put in pike have started to show in good numbers on the lower river. We've already had clubs change their rules to let anglers kill pike. We have also had people carring out their own private culls, these are matchmen, to protect "their" fish stocks. To be honest there are some very stupid people around.
All we need now is the cry to go up "will some body think about the ducks!".
I just thank God that the film about a man eating pike never came to fruition.