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I keep a couple a year (around 3 or 4 spread out over the entire winter). I throw pike over 30" back unless it is an icefishing derby. I had a good argument with a guy on Conesus about this subject. He was complaining that the giant pike are very few and far between. In the same sentence he was telling me how he fishes there every day he can during the winter and keeps as many as he can. I told him people like him were the reason why the trophy pike in Conesus are very few and far between. He did not like my answer and stopped talking to me. Conesus is one of the lakes around that can produce Giant pike. I think reducing the creel or a slot limit that protects breeders better would be the best thing for pike water like Conesus.

Thats a funny story. Nice job Andy.

Nitro, Here are the regs: 4 fish limit 53cm - 86cm is the slot and you can only keep one over 86cm. No one was keeping the hammer handles and only keeping one over the slot. The years before the slot, the pike fishing was awesome. A couple years after the slot, the pike fishing was horrible. You caught lots of pike but no big ones.

Squids were the thing in the 80's and early 90's here. They are only dusted off on slow days once and a while.

Can we get lights up all year? They have those lights that look like bobbers.....

Bob, Call around to one of the local lawn mower repair shops and ask if they do it.

I'm not sure about the convectors but I run my 200' on a Penn 330.

Hank, Sorry for your loss.

They put a slot limit on the river I used to fish in Canada and it killed the pike fishing. All you could catch were hammer handles. The slot killed too many big breader females.

That would kill the winter for me. I chase pike all winter. That is the only time I pike fish for the most part. I'm all for decreasing the pike creel limit and raising the minimum size. 22" pike are a pain in the azz to clean anyways.

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Best way to catch pike on black creek is by canoe. Lots of shore spots are well picked over. I will PM you with a better spot on a different creek.

Me too. I keep a couple every season for a nice meal. I have taken pike home that guys leave on the ice if I'm with in my limit. It happens all over. Gotta call the DEC and report them when you see that happening.

Cast them along the weed lines in 15 - 17 fow. Let them sink until they are around 4' off the bottom and then start a slow twitch retrieve back to the boat.

Conesus has a very good population of pike. The pike are fished a lot during ice season but it bounces back every year. MOST guys go to Conesus and don't catch many pike (there are some that do very well on the ice). It is a lake that you need to know to catch numbers of pike and catch pike every trip.

I have found the pike on Conesus get used to seeing the same old pike lures day in and day out. With the water temps dropping, try large weighted sluggos. We have done well in the late fall using sluggos.

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I will be hunting the depot this Saturday with my neighbor. It is going to be interesting.

I don't know Glen. I only did a pork shoulder and venison jerky in it. I would say around 3 mature salmon at a time.

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It was shot in Parma on Peck Rd near Rt 259 (Hilton Parma corners rd).

Last time my father was down there it was very close to filling in totally. I believe it was a month ago.