Pike are often the first fish anyone catches because they’re pretty easy to find, but not everyone enjoys eating them. Still, Marc Pitre of Sudbury fishing northern pike can be as exciting as fishing gets
Talk to anyone who has done any type of fishing in Northern Ontario and you're going to hear a pike story. Talk to Marc Pitre of Sudbury and you will hear some of the best pike stories ever told.
Pitre, a Sudbury tournament fisher, has heard most of those stories but he said it's all about getting outdoors and catching those massive fish. "I grew up on the Wanapitei River. And my neighbour used to take his boys fishing on the river. We'd fish from shore. And they'd always invite me and we'd put minnows on and toss them with bobbers on the river and you know we would catch big pike. Well not always big pike. But when you're a six or seven-year-old kid, you know a three-pound pike is big."
As an avid tournament fisher, Pitre said he thinks he has mastered a couple of techniques that always seem to work. One is to fish when the water temperature is around 68 degrees Fahrenheit , which he said is the optimal temperature for pike when they're feeding. The objective of the tournament is to catch the longest and heaviest fish. That sounds simple enough but Pitre will tell you it's not always that easy.
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