Any good recipes for Pike?

[Old Man]

I used to fish it often in Sweden, but I have not seen any recipes here for it so far.


ok just checked on the cost here very high at £64 for an average catch, which you could easily catch yourself 1-4 a day.. In any case I am still interested if there are any recipes here that any enjoy..

ty

 

[Old Man]

Just hang on a minute.

Don’t fish for a pike in the UK and eat it. UK is catch and release.

Eh?

Normally you just take a small club and smash it over the head a few times and try to avoid those teeth.

I see a lot of people complain about it having so many bones, but it's easy to remove the majority of them all at once, so there will only be the odd one to take out while eating.

Anyway, back at the family summer house by lake Bolmen - you could fish for pike, salmon and others.

 

[Old Man]

Yo

u cannot catch and kill pike in UK waters unless you have permission from the waters owners.

Too bad.

 

[Old Man]

It’s the law. Good enough reason for you?

I was interested in knowing why..

Seems killing them stopped in the 70's ..

I was not planning on fishing here for them, but I was interested only in the background behind catch and release as Pike is not an endangered fish.

 

[Old Man]

I'd suggest that @Old Man familiarise himself with the law, the links above detail all the rules that apply to EA controlled waters in addition to highlighting the need in for permission on privately owned fisheries or waters on privately owned land.

To be honest I have no issue with fish being taken for the table provided they're taken in line with the law.

@robfosters I understand where you're coming from, I used to do a lot of sea fishing and would regularly see large numbers of undersize fish being taken which is just wrong.
I've also heard of plenty of occurrences where people are illegally fishing and taking fish from private waters - it's just difficult and sometimes dangerous to enforce though

Anyway, threads going off-topic - only recipe I know is the classic wrap it in wet newspaper and bbq. I think pike probably a bit to bony and fiddly for my liking wouldn't say no to professionally prepared though.

As I have already mentioned, I had not intended to fish for it in the UK and was curious because the price was so high to purchase a whole pike and also I was interested in the "catch and release".

This topic has been blown all out of proportion..

This mess started because I used to go fishing in Sweden for fresh water salmon, pike and "abborre" (not sure what that is in English (tends to be much smaller and a lot more bones)) often, but it has been over 20 years since then and so I started looking online for information to see if I could buy a whole pike, etc... In any case it's too costly for me, so I'll see about it the next time I am in Sweden.

TY for the information

 

[Old Man]

@Old Man I've always fancied having a go for some pike with some lightweight spinning gear.
How'd you fish for them back in sweden? Live/deadbaits or lures?

Perch would like to try, pretty sure they're related to bass which is obviously lovely eating.

Would give carp a go but always heard it tastes muddy unless kept in clean running water for a while

I normally always caught a pike when i went out and I did so from shore; I always went out on windy days (has to be really windy) and had orange lures, so in that weather it was salmon or pike and sometimes both. Forgot to add that the lures were roughly 4 inches long....

The pike i caught and kept were around 8 kilo's, so not huge or anything, but a nice size.

Another thing is that in Sweden, you are allowed to enter on to anothers property (not within sight of their home) and camp, etc or say go walking through the forests which are many and or go looking for a nice place to fish from, so long as you clean up after yourselves.

Maybe reading a bit of this will help: http://www.nordguide.se/pike-fishing/
note: this is way north of where I used to fish, but you get the idea from the site.

Hope this helps somewhat

 

[Old Man]

@Old Man I've always fancied having a go for some pike with some lightweight spinning gear.

If you can plan a fishing trip (etc) over to Sweden and stay for a week or so, it'd be easy to setup anywhere along lake Bolmen (many others too, but I like Bolmen most) as there
are several types of fish found in Bolmen: Zander, Common Bream, Perch, Pike, Roach, Burbot, Eel, Ruffe, Whitefish, Vendace, Common Bleak and Silver Bream.

You can camp on the lakes edge, fish and cook up your catch.

 

[Old Man]

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