Have you all ever seen a pike this color.. I caught this one Saturday in the Mississippi. She was still losing eggs. Looked to be 90% spawned out already. I dont know if that has anythibng to do with the coloring. Was crazy. I have never seen one so red. It was quite the sight in the water before we netted her.
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I’ve seen them with Red on them but thats usually from the stress of being caught. But no, I’ve never seen one that looked like that. Interesting.
Wow awesome fish! No clue on the color though.
Wild. Sizable fish too.
That’s a wild color pattern. Good thing she wasn’t 45″. The taxidermist would have a hell of a time trying to mix paints for that one.
have seen some red too but nothing like that!!
Maybe stressed with the spawn ?
She’s just blushing in the presence of such a good wood sculptor.
“I want you to carve me like one of your French girls, Joe.”
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Oh, she wasn’t happy to see me.. haha.
First off, congrats. Not sure how you caught it but when I troll crankbaits for pike and they hammer it I always say it feels like someone just started pounding your crankbait with a sledgehammer.
Quite awhile ago I caught a pike fishing from shore somewhere that I kept but had to walk a long way to my truck holding the fish vertically. By the time I got there the bottom third of the pike had that same red coloring, and I had just figured it was from carrying it vertically like I did and blood rushing. I would guess like some others have said, stress from the fight caused a lot of blood flow. Very cool picture.
That is a beautiful fish both in size and color my goodness! Never saw anything like it before. Wow.
44″?
Never seen one that red before Joe. Neat fish.
It’s spawning stress.
Nice fish!
It’s spawning stress.
I wondered the same.. I caught it on medium set up fishing for smallmouths. We are open year round CPR if anyone is wondering… 
Pretty fast catch and I was lucky. Broke the line in the net. It was mid 30 fish.. I am just holding her out in the photo. We didn’t measure it. Was still losing eggs in the boat so dumped her back in the water pretty quick.
I remember seeing one on uncut angling that looked red. They were hitch hiking for someone to fish with them. A truck had pulled over with a 50 inch pike that was dead. Guessing in a net and looked red if I remember right.. I could be wrong but it looked odd. This one was weird but looked super healthy. It had red in the jaw plate, eye socket and in a scaled pattern on the sides. Was easly 80-90% spawned out.. The belly scales were wringling like you see on a big walleye right off spawn.
I only had two guesses.. Spawn stress or too much time under Methanies pipe draining in the river here… haha. Between the needles, barbie dolls and turd spinner we have options. Big dark rabbit hole to look into there.
Here is a photo of the belly side where you can see her losing a few eggs yet and the scaling of the belly side. She most likely just finished spawning and was returing to feed.
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Thanks for putting her back. I don’t like her odds of making it but the cool water might help.
Arapaima vibes
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