You GOTTA see these pics!!

[LakerTaker85]

These are just some pics of my brother with some large fish caught right out of our home lake...

This pike was caught in mid Feb (07) and tipped the scale at 20.5 pounds!! It was 41 inches long, we caught it on a perch colored rapala in 20 FOW. People tell me its on of the biggest pike caught out of Seneca lake, but i dont really no...

This is a fresh water drum, my brother caught it back in 2004 on a brown jig (we were fishing for perch!) it weighed 14 point something pounds!!! It looks prehistoric... the picture quality is not the best, i had to scan it onto my computer but it is still an amazing fish!

[Stinky Finger]

Beautiful pike, stunning really, a real trophy.

Also that has got to be the biggest sewer trout I have ever seen...

[kingslamon22]

them big ole sheepheads put up an amazing fight. i got a 20 pound and change sheephead in oneida lake a couple years back on a trolling spoon off a downrigger. it was like dragging a trashcan lid through the water.

[kremer01]

wow that pike is one of the prettiest I've ever seen - beautiful really! - huge head, fat belly and awesome color and pattern. what a catch!!

[Stinky Finger]

them big ole sheepheads put up an amazing fight. i got a 20 pound and change sheephead in oneida lake a couple years back on a trolling spoon off a downrigger. it was like dragging a trashcan lid through the water.

They might not be the prettiest fish but you're right about the fight, they are scrappers!

BTW- I recall reading an article years ago (by a Canadian fisheries biologist I think) which was about some otoliths (ear bones) found in Lake Erie which showed that 800 pound sheepsheads once swam there. That was not a typo, eight hundred pounds. Yikes!!!

[tmag]

Anybody know if those fish were kept or released?

[irishbailey86]

thats a big pike but they get bigger in seneca....ive caught two in reed bay near kashong that topped 50"....i think these fish are a nuisance personally...weed em out, save the trout!

[tmag]

Actually, saving the trout has little to do with weeding out the pike especially the larger ones. Might be worth your while to check out what they, etc. Pete Maina of 'The Next Bite' was nice enough to post my compilation on their website:

http://www.thenextbite.com/node/12116

[alex1young]

Agreed large pike and trout share very little water only certain times of the year. The best way to save the trout is through selective harvest. I like to get my picture with them but let the big guys go. After all they are the breeders, and very important to the ecosystem.

[Hookedup]

A few bass, suckers, and pan fish are glad you caught that big pike. That is one nice fish

[chowder]

Outstanding Pike, truly an awesome fish!