After the initial growth spurt, Pike, typically add at least a pound of weight a year. A 1 ¼” fish will eat a 1” fish! With good forage, Pike will grow to be 12 inches long in their first year of life. Fry are targeted by larger insects, minnows, pan fish and cannibalism is very common with Pike. Eggs take about 10 days to hatch and the fry stay in shallow water for several weeks eating tiny water flees and other small aquatic organisms. Females lay approximately 32,000 eggs per pound of fish. Spawning occurs over flooded areas that dry up later in the year and most activity occurs in the afternoon. Pike start spawning when water temperatures reach 4.4C (40F) and ends when it reaches 11.1C (52F). That I don’t know but I have watched them spawn in the flood grasses beside the dock while the rest of the lake is still covered in ice. In the northern climate where Woman River Camp & Outposts is located, Northern Pike are the top predator in the food chain. Like most species on the planet, quality of habitat dictates life for a Northern Pike. Pike range across much of North America and their cousin lives over in Europe. On the flanks, pike have multiple bean-shaped white to yellow spots. Pike vary in color from green to brown on the dorsal side to white on the belly. Dorsal and anal fins are located toward the rear of the body. The jaws have numerous teeth, sloping toward the rear. Pike are elongated with a large and flattened, duckbill-like head. A voracious predator, Northern Pike are known to eat muskrats, ducklings, loon chicks, mice and any fish in the lake it thinks it can devour. Whether it fits in their mouth or not, their eyes are sometimes bigger than their stomach. Northern Pike, the fish with an endless appetite and the cojones to attack anything that moves in the water.
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