Let's Talk Pike Weight...

I go by length, and refer back to the tables online to estimate weight.

here is my biggest from this summer.

notice how the fin is about the size of my hand.

[Albertafisher]

Originally Posted by pelada trochu

I go by length, and refer back to the tables online to estimate weight.

here is my biggest from this summer.

notice how the fin is about the size of my hand.

Very nice fish! How much did she weigh?

thks, just 43" and she went right back

[Speckle55]

Originally Posted by PikeFlyGuy

Girth is everything. Winter and early spring pike are usually thin. By summer, they've put on weight for the coming winter. I caught an 8# fly-rod tippet class IGFA record several years ago on Reindeer Lake that was 44.5" long and weighed 26#13oz. Last summer I caught a 45" pike on the Innoko River in Alaska that only weighed 23# and a 41" fish that only weighed 16#

If you're not weighing a fish for contests or records, I've developed a great weight chart, using length & girth, that's reliable within 5%. It's in my book, TOOTHY CRITTERS LOVE FLIES, but if you PM me your e-mail, I can send it to anyone interested as an attachment.

The hen's will be spawning in May so the early spring in March April will the biggest a hen will be as the eggs will be 3/4 developed so a 44 inch pike in summer will be 27# in late march it will be 29# full of roe . most of the big Pike will be Hen's
i also have had World Record fish and still have a line class Brook Trout at 12#13oz on 8# line
ice fishing FWFH of F Pike and IGFA spin line RMWF.

any Pike caught in a River will normally be longer than a Lake Pike. some 50 inch plus pike caught in river are only 30# range

Food for Thought
David

[biggamehunter]

Heres a 16 lber caught out of sylvan lake last fall. 38 inches long. beauty!