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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Probably didn't even taste it
You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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Lost a few trout to pike over the years. When a pike decides to eat something it does it quickly
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Campfire Sage
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That must have ruined that perch's day.
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Big gators can eat pretty much anything they want. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/riNUl5J.jpg)
I am always looking for factory wood stocks!
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Big gators can eat pretty much anything they want. That's a good one. Most of the ones around here are oversized hammer handles
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Big gators can eat pretty much anything they want. That's a good one. Most of the ones around here are oversized hammer handles Just to clarify, that is just an internet picture. I have no idea who that handsome young man with fine taste in clothing is. 
I am always looking for factory wood stocks!
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Looked like the table next to me at the Golden Corral last night!
It isn't what happens to you that defines you, it's what you DO about what happens to you that defines you!
NRA life member
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Patrick Henry
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I've seen a few dead northerns over the years with a fish stuck in their mouth. Bit off more than they could chew I guess.
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I've had them latch onto stringers, and more than one walleye/panfish/perch that I was trying to land. As stated above, it's what they do.
"Their minds are dead" - Carmine Ricca
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Several times I have had bigger pike swallow a smaller pike that I had caught and was reeling in.
I have never been able to land a twofer but have tried damn hard.
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Water wolf. Basically a freshwater shark.
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I used to keep one of these in an aquarium. He ate all kinds of living things, but I mainly fed him goldfish. A Pike Cichlid: ![[Linked Image from cdn11.bigcommerce.com]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-kkon4imfg5/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/7919/5758/7f98ce0546a2bf44f213e5fd68dd5aa9__64667.1522386405.jpg)
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I had a big one (20 lb +) hit a 2 pound pike that I was pulling up the ice hole in the fish house. There was a heavy pull, then snap. I looked down and it had the smaller fish in it's mouth upside down, belly up. I watched in awe as it slowly swam to the bottom with my fish. One of the coolest fishing experiences of my life.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Looks to me like a dead perch just dropped out of the boat. Never even made any sign of danger approaching
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Looks to me like a dead perch just dropped out of the boat. Never even made any sign of danger approaching Yep. That's what it looked like to me too.
"Their minds are dead" - Carmine Ricca
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Smaller pike get washed up on gravel in some of the 50/100 mph winds we get where we guide moose. A trough forms on the end of the lake and a bit of water. When its over if we find a small pike in that trough we catch and release back into the lake.
I have never seen a pike escape. Every last one has been eaten by bigger ones. Granted we have not seen or caught anything over 36 inches but its a small lake and it never gets fished excepting a bit during 25 days in the fall.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Campfire Kahuna
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If you net a pike that followed a walleye to the boat, that fish has a lot of fight.
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