Dave Orrick's outdoors reading suggestions for the long winter ahead
NORTHERN PIKE by Rodney Pierce featured among the Pioneer Press's recommendations for winter reading.
If walleye are our meat, pike are our potatoes. Or stale bread, if it's a hammer handle. Or prime rib, if it's a monster. "Therein lies one of the most challenging contrasts for managing the fish: large pike are prized catches, whereas small pike are frequently regarded as trash fish," wrote Rod Pierce in "Northern Pike: Ecology, Conservation and Management History" ($40, University of Minnesota Press, 2012).Esox lucius is the second-most-sought-after game fish in Minnesota. Yet, when was the last time you read a book about northern pike? Or even a fishing report?
Published in: Pioneer Press
By: Dave Orrick
Story Date: 2012-12-29T00:00:00
By: Dave Orrick
Story Date: 2012-12-29T00:00:00