mostlymuskies

The world population is increasing by close to 82 million every year.The world's food supply is already strained and will be the biggest problem going forward.

I will not be able to participate in further discussion on this debate on northern pike being Catch & Release for Tournaments until I return from Guyana South America in early March.I will not have Internet service being 272 miles inland in the rain forest fishing!

Pike are a little bit hardier then muskies in the cold.Muskies anytime the outside temperature is below 20 degrees or below freezing with wind, the gills can freeze and the fish is then going to die.If the cornea of the eye turns opaque, the cornea is frozen and the fish will become blind.Pike can handle the cold better then a muskie can, but at temperatures of 10 degrees or lower the Pikes gills will freeze in short time as well as the cornea of the eye.Only sure thing is to keep the pike or muskie in the water as much as possible and any lifting for a picture should be very quickly done and right back in the water.

Congrats Chas!

Man's imprint on Global Warming is only about 1%, one natural disaster like when Mt St. Helen's eruption did more to damage the ozone layer then all the rest of the world s pollution into the atmosphere.The polar ice caps have actually been growing as well. Al Gore is wrong!

Tom, I sent you a private email but it says your blocked! Email me at [email protected]

Tom, Yes I have fished Lake St.Claire, good numbers of muskies, more smaller fish then bigger ones.The bigger muskies on the Niagara River / Buffalo Harbor trend to have much more girth.But St.Claire fishermen can have multiple fish days, some have caught over 20 muskies in one day!

Congrats on some great fishing, had to just be fun as can be with a noodle rod!

You stated in one of your posts that you had product to supplement prize checks!

They are only paying out the first 3 Places in 7 categories also! They will most likely give you donated merchandise in place of cash! If they do not get good numbers of entrants they will not be around very long!

Panfisher, Everything you say would be nice but the added expense to purchase the measuring / weighing instrument would not be what the regular guy would spend money on just to fish a tournament, they would just not get in.See I'm not anti tournament either, I believe tournaments promote fishing and make more eyes see what we have for all to enjoy.But at the same time one must look at long term effects on certain fish species to see what may be detrimental to that fishes survival.Catch & Release for Northern Pike with signed witness and lie - detector test for winners at the end is all that is needed to insure that we have big northern pike available for all to enjoy catching again in the future.The promoter of this state wide tourney has said he will be open to discussion to make changes for 2016 Tourney, I'm OK with that and will follow up with them on that comittment they made. In the meantime I will avoid entering this Tourney as the northern pike rules are now.I would ask those who do enter participate by entering all species but northern pike!

Tom, The 91 muskies included Ohio, Pa, NY & Ontario Muskies to my boat, that is down 50+ what I normally catch each year.There are guys claiming to catch 100+ muskies a week on St. Claire!

An updated online leader board in real time to show the leading fish is a must or fishermen will be killing fish with the thinking they have the winner, only to find out after the fact they do not and they could have released the fish.

Tom, Big Hawg muskies never came in this year water stayed in mid to upper 40's out in Lake Erie till the end, holding gizzard Shad and Big Spotted Muskies out deep. The biggest I caught at Chautauqua was 49 1/2" and 48 1/2" on the Niagara River with nine other fish from 47" to 48", only 91 muskies total for the year, but missed all of September, half of October & November this past year. Biggest for the Niagara River was 51" and biggest I seen a picture of from the "Larry" was 56"!