Washington battling major threat to Columbia salmon

Sea lions, cormorants, terns.....now you can add northern pike to the list.

Washington is in a running battle with a sharp-toothed, voracious, predatory alien invader, the northern pike.

The biggest fear is that the prolific breeders might make it down river from Box Canyon Reservoir and into the Columbia River.

LINK (via: The Statesman Journal)

Then the fun started...

A plateful of pike tacos is suddenly sounding delicious

The disturbing scuttlebutt coming out of the Cutthroat Anglers fly-fishing shop in Silverthorne appears to have some teeth. Along with word-of-mouth reports, one of the shop's guides has visual confirmation on a 36-inch northern pike being caught, and unfortunately released, in the Colorado River at Pumphouse Recreation Area.

LINK (via:The Denver Post)

A shotgun with slugs seems to work pretty good

 It's legal to shoot pike in Vermont.

“We fish primarily for pike,” Greenough said. He says the concussion of the gun blast in the water does not always kill the fish. In fact, he said half the excitement of the technique was trying to gather up the floating fish before they regained consciousness.

LINK (Via: Ultimate Outdoors Radio )