Cool ! Thanks, guys. Usually, I get my friend Wayne to fillet the Pike, (and now he's teaching Amy how to fillet them) but one of these days I really gotta' just clean a few myself. Most every trip to the Chip, I get a few Pike over 30 inches, mostly on a Suick, and I'm not too bashful about harvesting those for eating. I'll release the big ones, and I don't eat every Pike I catch, just one every now and then for a nice fresh piece of fish. I really do think they taste great and are quite the abundant resource on the Chip.

One good thing about good sized fillets is, the Y bones tend to be kinda' big too, so if you cook one, you can pick it out pretty easy. hahaha

Good luck this season y'all ! They are starting to catch some Muskie on my local lake this past week ! DNR netted a couple that would have made state record. Nice.