Last week when Chris Granrud and I were on Rainy Lake fishing pike we decided to keep one 5 lb pike for supper. When this fish came to the boat we noticed it had a large object in its belly. Upon cleaning… we find a cleanly severed walleye head!
The head came from a pretty good sized walleye which we estimated at around 19″ – 20″. So that would put this unlucky walleye in the protected size range on Rainy Lake.
As best we can guess it, someone poached this walleye, cleaned it quickly then dumped the head into the water.
Along comes Mr. Pike… he snarfs up what must have been one heck of a meal to force down as the walleye head is darn near as big as the pike’s whole head… and hours later he runs into a Bomber Long A that he wanted for desert!
