first pike of the season

Hi everybody,
today I needed to spent the day buying new waders, new wading shoes and
a new rain jacket. My Simms jacket ( second time ) was leak, as well as
my Slade waders. Unbelievable how short these things seem to last.
But anyway : of course it was a gorgious day to fish... beautiful pike
weather.
So back home I had another hour left before it would get dark, so I gave
it a try. And there she was..the first pike of this season. In Holland
for me the pike season starts in the beginning of october, when most of
the waterplants are dying.
Although I was alone I managed to take a few nice shots.
http://hans.pressanykey.nl/homepage/...aginaid=158220

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:13:17 +0200, Staalkop wrote:

Hi everybody,
today I needed to spent the day buying new waders, new wading shoes and
a new rain jacket. My Simms jacket ( second time ) was leak, as well as
my Slade waders. Unbelievable how short these things seem to last.
But anyway : of course it was a gorgious day to fish... beautiful pike
weather.
So back home I had another hour left before it would get dark, so I gave
it a try. And there she was..the first pike of this season. In Holland
for me the pike season starts in the beginning of october, when most of
the waterplants are dying.
Although I was alone I managed to take a few nice shots.
http://hans.pressanykey.nl/homepage/...aginaid=158220

Very nice. That last picture is perfectly composed - damned good if it was
taken by someone else, damned near miraculous as a self-portrait....

cheers

/daytripper

Staalkop wrote:
Hi everybody,
today I needed to spent the day buying new waders, new wading shoes and
a new rain jacket. My Simms jacket ( second time ) was leak, as well as
my Slade waders. Unbelievable how short these things seem to last.
But anyway : of course it was a gorgious day to fish... beautiful pike
weather.
So back home I had another hour left before it would get dark, so I gave
it a try. And there she was..the first pike of this season. In Holland
for me the pike season starts in the beginning of october, when most of
the waterplants are dying.
Although I was alone I managed to take a few nice shots.
http://hans.pressanykey.nl/homepage/...aginaid=158220

It just struck me that I haven't fished for pike this season. How did I let
that happen?

Looking at your excellent pictures I see some different coloring on the fish
from what I'm used to here in North America. The sort of tiger stripes on the
back don't happen here, the bars on the lower half of your fish continue up the
entire side of our fish. I wonder if they are really the same fish, or if
there are two species.

Thanks,

Chas
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chas schreef:
Staalkop wrote:

Hi everybody,
today I needed to spent the day buying new waders, new wading shoes and
a new rain jacket. My Simms jacket ( second time ) was leak, as well as
my Slade waders. Unbelievable how short these things seem to last.
But anyway : of course it was a gorgious day to fish... beautiful pike
weather.
So back home I had another hour left before it would get dark, so I gave
it a try. And there she was..the first pike of this season. In Holland
for me the pike season starts in the beginning of october, when most of
the waterplants are dying.
Although I was alone I managed to take a few nice shots.
http://hans.pressanykey.nl/homepage/...aginaid=158220


It just struck me that I haven't fished for pike this season. How did I let
that happen?

Looking at your excellent pictures I see some different coloring on the fish
from what I'm used to here in North America. The sort of tiger stripes on the
back don't happen here, the bars on the lower half of your fish continue up the
entire side of our fish. I wonder if they are really the same fish, or if
there are two species.

Thanks,

Chas
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Hi Chas,
would be something for a biologist or so.
The day after ( see website ) I caught another one, that had a clearly
differently pattern again,
Hans

btw I tried to mail you directly, but that wouldn't work..

Staalkop wrote:
chas schreef:

Staalkop wrote:

Hi everybody,
today I needed to spent the day buying new waders, new wading shoes
and a new rain jacket. My Simms jacket ( second time ) was leak, as
well as my Slade waders. Unbelievable how short these things seem to
last.
But anyway : of course it was a gorgious day to fish... beautiful
pike weather.
So back home I had another hour left before it would get dark, so I
gave it a try. And there she was..the first pike of this season. In
Holland for me the pike season starts in the beginning of october,
when most of the waterplants are dying.
Although I was alone I managed to take a few nice shots.
http://hans.pressanykey.nl/homepage/...aginaid=158220



It just struck me that I haven't fished for pike this season. How did
I let that happen?

Looking at your excellent pictures I see some different coloring on
the fish from what I'm used to here in North America. The sort of
tiger stripes on the back don't happen here, the bars on the lower
half of your fish continue up the entire side of our fish. I wonder
if they are really the same fish, or if there are two species.

Thanks,

Chas
remove fly fish to e mail directly

Hi Chas,
would be something for a biologist or so.
The day after ( see website ) I caught another one, that had a clearly
differently pattern again,
Hans

btw I tried to mail you directly, but that wouldn't work..


I agree with Chas. The markings on the fish you caught are quite
different from the "normal" Pike we get in the US. I googled up pike
from the Scandinavian region and got:

http://www.cwcab.com/bigpike.htm

These are some beautiful, big fish. In terms of markings, they look
just like the Pike we see in North America.

Willi

Willi wrote:
I googled up pike from the Scandinavian region and got:

The dude is Dutch, FYI.

Gary M wrote:
Willi wrote:

I googled up pike from the Scandinavian region and got:


The dude is Dutch, FYI.


Ah. One of the Low Countries. That explains it.

:-)

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