Michigan Muskie Alliance

Pike Production Factors
The Science Behind Growing Gators

Recruitment, growth, and mortality: three words that on the surface may not make an angler’s ears ring but buzz loudly in a fishery biologist’s. These three rate functions are important because they interact to shape fish populations. Recruitment and growth add, mortality subtracts. What results are characteristics of a fish stock—age structure, size structure, and density—at any point in time.
http://www.in-fisherman.com/content/pik ... on-factors

I got this issue a couple weeks ago, and the article was pretty cool. Shoule we start useing slot limits for pike?

biiigfish32 wrote:I got this issue a couple weeks ago, and the article was pretty cool. Shoule we start useing slot limits for pike?

From a management perspective slot limits make the most sense for many species. Unfortunately from an enforcement perspective slot limits are generally not supported.

Let me try to resurrect this one:

Is there any inkling out there, anywhere, that maximum size limits might have a chance someday?

john c wrote:Let me try to resurrect this one:

Is there any inkling out there, anywhere, that maximum size limits might have a chance someday?

I would love to see that happen! I just found a lake by my house that produces big pike and in 2006 someone hauled in a 51in pike! I would like to see those kind of fish put back so maybee someone else can experience that too. But I think it's just a pipe dream.