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What do you do with the eggs?

Started by chilli, Mar 25 2006 10:52 PM

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#1 chilli

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Posted 25 March 2006 - 10:52 PM

Met a couple of nice lads from the S S Marie today with fish in a bag. A beauty brown and about a 5 pound pike. They offered me the pike. I asked why they didn't want it and they explained they fouled up the release and it hit the rocks pretty hard. Happens to the best of us but at least they kept it until they found a good dinner plate for it.

I gladly accepted and did my best trying the boneless fillet technique. But like the big female perch the pike are full of eggs and the fillets are thin right now. It just seems like such a waste to throw them out. I feel that if we are going to harvest we should learn to maximize use of these fish. Guts head and bones are feeding the coons as we speak but what can I do with the eggs. I'll eat perch eggs but pike is a little different. Normally I'd release this fish but like Tommy sais if your going to fish be prepared to eat what you catch because it doesn't always live. So what do you do with the eggs?

Any ideas? B)
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Posted 25 March 2006 - 10:56 PM

Catfish bait????

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Posted 25 March 2006 - 11:00 PM

B) no thanks I had pasta for dindin :D Catfish
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Posted 25 March 2006 - 11:18 PM

May sound dumb, but I would find a hole where you know pike are and release the eggs into the water. Who knows what will happen?

Better than letting them rot.

Spawning Habits

Pike reproduce (spawn) in the spring. They are random spawners, broadcasting their eggs and milt over vegetation or bottom debris in shallow marsh areas and in flood plains. Unlike some other fish, such as bass or bullheads, pike build no nests and give no parental care to the eggs or young. The highly adhesive eggs stick to whatever they land on. Eggs hatch after eight to 15 days and the young have to fend for themselves. Within three to four weeks, young pike develop their carnivorous habits and will even begin eating other young pike.

The pike's habit of spawning on flood plains can, at times, become a serious problem for its survival. Even slight decreases in the water level can result in the stranding and death of young. In certain areas, this factor limits the abundance of the species.

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http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/f...s/piketext.html

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Posted 25 March 2006 - 11:43 PM

Or I could just throw them in the bathtub with the wife....................
and run..........................
and never come back B)
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Posted 25 March 2006 - 11:50 PM

Thanks for the info fishstick, it's pretty bad when the young even have to hide from their own parents to avoid becoming dinner when they are young. B)

Edited by Rockfish, 25 March 2006 - 11:53 PM.

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Posted 25 March 2006 - 11:55 PM

Hey fishstick have you ever tried to fertilize them yourself??? B)

Edited by chilli, 25 March 2006 - 11:56 PM.

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 12:07 AM

take the perch eggs dip them in in egg ant then into a sugar and crushed cornflakes mix and fry them in oil or butter ummm i said eeeeeewwwww till i tried it

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 07:13 AM

View Postchilli, on Mar 25 2006, 11:55 PM, said:

Hey fishstick have you ever tried to fertilize them yourself??? B)

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 08:30 AM

View Postfloatmaster, on Mar 26 2006, 12:07 AM, said:

take the perch eggs dip them in in egg ant then into a sugar and crushed cornflakes mix and fry them in oil or butter ummm i said eeeeeewwwww till i tried it

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 08:46 AM

Tie it up into big roe bags for catfishing! It works!

Edited by Big Bass Rich, 26 March 2006 - 08:46 AM.

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 09:39 AM

Cool thanks guys.
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Posted 26 March 2006 - 10:33 AM

I have actually tried battered pike eggs. I like the small perch ones, but i find the pike ones abit to strong for the liking. You may like the strong taste.

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 11:09 AM

On pike eggs I've taken the whole sac rolled them in flour and fried them in oil. Watch as they sometimes explode. Don,t taste too bad.

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Posted 26 March 2006 - 04:01 PM

:lol: :lol: :lol: Hey Fishsticky: I think I seen a SMILIES that would help you on fertilizing dem dar pike eggs :blush: I could just see him now all red in the face. No No don't do it fishy I don't think we could bare to see the results, ;) :blahblah1: :blahblah1: :Gonefishing: fishy 1 fishy 2 fishy 3 and on and on and on ;) Catfish
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