Inside a pike's stomach

[Cudz]

A friend of mine caught a 9 pound pike in Geargian Bay 2 days ago. He took it home and cut it up. He opened the stomach to see what it had been eating and to his surprise he found 2 freshly eaten crayfish. I was a bit surprised as well seeing as pike don't see down very well. I should know better. Pike will eat almost anything that moves.

[Rich]

Pike are great scavengers, in fact they say the best bait for big pike is cut or dead bait on or near bottom through the ice. I don't see why it wouldn't work in the summer.

[TennesseeGuy]

The camera of my underwater viewing system was sitting on the bottom when picked up by a pike.

[PatrickGG]

If they hit Tube Jigs and Jig and Pigs i don't see why they wouldn't Eat Crayfish, i think they will eat anything that fits down there throat.

Edited September 13, 2008 by PatrickG

[jwl]

in late fall when it's really cold out and early spring just after ice out, I mostly fish big white twisters for them , gotta fish really slow and keep in contact with the bottom to get them most of the time. This will catch fish often when no-one else is getting them

[Clampet]

Pike are great scavengers, in fact they say the best bait for big pike is cut or dead bait on or near bottom through the ice. I don't see why it wouldn't work in the summer.

 

Better than live minnows.

[GbayGiant]

All my biggest pike came on jigs, walleye fishing rite on the bottom, spring and fall.

[CLofchik]

They got puked up by the 3lb. smallmouth he ate last week.

[tdotfisherman]

I've caught Pike on flipping jigs w/ trailers up in northern lakes before.. They will eat anything they can, including crayfish.. aggressive little buggers, they are..

[oxcowboy]

up north, i would say most of the ones we catch have crawdads in them, way more than minnows. my biggest was caught on a madman crawdad and jig.

 

jason

[Cudz]

They got puked up by the 3lb. smallmouth he ate last week.

lol

[limeyangler]

They got puked up by the 3lb. smallmouth he ate last week.

 

 

 

LOL...good one!

[jwl]

when I took my 52 incher musky to the taxidermist a few years back,it had a hard lump in it's belly,out of curiosity,while I was still at the shop he cut it open so we could see what it was, turned out to be a 15 1/2 inch catfish

Edited September 13, 2008 by jwl

[Rich]

Even more interesting jwl, I remember reading an article in OOD quite a few years back about the Ottawa River catfish having walleye as their main diet. Talk about a food chain.

[Rizzo]

uh oh, the secret is out. Although I haven't checked personally, a relative kept a few pike from our cottage lake and they told me the same thing...crayfish in the stomach and nothing else.