Big fat pike

Are they there year round and on east or west side

Are they there year round like during ice season or jus So the weedline midlake

Thats the area its impossible not to catch a perch

There are in most of ny but not in the 1000 islands

I mean the least amount of people fish for them, i catch and release, and am willing to share where to go for big pike and another spot for a lot of them

My question is would pike prefer perch or gobies because while everything eats gobies the abundance of perch to the point that there is no daily limit makes me wonder what which one they would eat

Sorry i backtracked one of my favorite catches

I caught my personal best pike on a green pumpkin blk flake in the erie canal i got stuck on a rock and it unsagged me swam towards me so I thought I had a rock bass and got it towards the dock and it swam the other way and after a brief battle got it in the net and kept it in the net in the water for 10 minutes until my friend came with my scale and tape measure it tried to burst out to at these minnows jumping around otherwise didn’t even care and after i revived it for 5 minutes it swam off slowly not caring about anything

For me i found most of my success casting out a senko to imitate a dead fish and let it sit there and use spoons or spinners which brings me to another question should i use my daredevle or my booyah pikee spinnerbait color perch

Oh yeah by the way due to me being fascinated by pike,pickerel, and muskies I believe i know where to go at Conesus during late ice but not 100% sure so am willing to share

From my research it seems 10>fow in spring fall and winter and 15> in summer curious if canadice had the big ones two or just the numbers

Ive only caught one pickerel in canadice fishing there on my birthday

Being in Rochester hemlock is closest pickerel lake The dec says hemlock is known for its big pickerel though i do want to try there

Though I have heard of that area

due to reasons i cant go all the way out there