Red Lake Pike

Over lunch I was checking out a Taxidermy forum and came across someone selling whole 40″+ Northern Pike from Red Lake Fisheries. Is this all on the up and up?????

Just wondering

I don’t think it is, would like to see the pike, would you send me the link, thanks,
Jack.

Are these pre- mounted fish or ones that have been done already? We have caught a number of 40″+ Northern from Red…so it is possible they are from there.

FDR

Jack….here’s the link.

Link to website

The way it sounds to me is, they are selling large pike to be mounted. Probably get more $$$$ than selling them to the fish processing plant there.

Good to see our tax dollars hard at work again.

Unbelievable!

There goes some of our good tax money going to work again.

Tell me again, why did we restock this lake.

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Probably get more $$$$ than selling them to the fish processing plant there.

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Unless I read that wrong it looks to be the fish processing plant selling it to me.

To me it doesn’t matter who is selling it. It’s wrong for me to support that lake with both state and federal tax dollars, then to see it taken advantage of.

Is this the route we want to go?? I’m gonna start targeting musky on Mille Lacs and killing them for mounts to be sold to the highest bidder??

Sorry, just very frustrated by the lack of backbone everyone has when it comes to these issues.

I hear ya and agree with you Kooty. It’s just wrong!

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Im not sure how to post this to seem fair to both sides but ill try

back in 1970 i worked for a companpy that bought all there eyes, gators from them- there werent many gators brought in or huge eyes but the biggest ones were wrapped and frozen–not cut up

the reason being there were people that just wanted a trophy– one guy needed a big eye so he could show his wife he was fishing but he was in a motel with someone else;;

figure that one out?

some peple cant go fishing but always have a bare spot on the wall, or building a den, etc
even though they didnt catch it–in there minds they could feel the tug, the fight, the spirtit of fishing and pulling it in–

now in my eyes thats a fisherman’s dream
the selling of those big gators is not a bad idea in my head- its a lot better than a few years ago when they were speared and tossed in a pile on shore to rot

you can get on my if you want for what i say but darn were still lucky to have a portion of Red and i wish the crappies would come back but im only dreaming

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I won’t get on your butt for voicing your opinion.

Here’s my opinion………….the bad publicity that has come from Red the last couple of years has more then over shadowed any Crappie bite you have had in the past. My heart goes out to those who have sunk their hard earned money into resorts and business’s up there. I don’t care where the slots go, Minnesota anglers are getting p.o.’d with whats going on around the state. Red Lake will suffer for it.

If I owned something up there I would sell and take my business else where, to another lake that doesn’t have the bad reputation Red is getting. I know personally I’ll never spend dollar one up there which is a shame considering I love hunting big Pike.

Best of luck to everyone up there, like I said this is just one persons opinion.