Best Pike Websites
Find All The Information You Need With These Helpful Sites
by: Nick McCarthy

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Pike are persistent, plentiful and powerful. But they don’t hold up well online, as least as far as I’m concerned. There seems to be a shortage of good websites devoted to these voracious predators, and I suppose that’s because many anglers do not truly target pike in their backyard fisheries on a regular basis.
 
Meanwhile, bass are specifically targeted all across the country by both die-hard and average anglers. Hence, a gluttony of bass-focused websites. For walleyes it’s the same deal; albeit more of a regional focus, but anglers go after walleyes in waters close to home.
 
But pike, I believe, are only valued when they get big, which makes sense. Pike ten pounds and larger are a blast; a two-pounder is just a nuisance. Consequently, most American anglers only target pike when they’re on trophy pike waters. If they’re fishing locally or fairly close to home, in waters where small pike prevail, they’re not terribly interested in catching them.
 
The only time people really want to target pike is when they’re big, and that often means pikes found in Canada. That, I believe, explains the lack of pike websites; because you can’t really swap reports and updates on how the pike are biting 1,200 miles away in Quebec. The forums and message boards that are so popular for bass and walleye consist of anglers talking weekly and daily about fishing close to home. For quality pike, that option just isn’t there.
 
Nonetheless, I did the best I could in rounding up some good pike websites for anyone interested. In Olympic-inspired fashion, here are my favorite three sites:
 
Gold Medal:  MyOutdoorTV.com 

Along with the lack of quality pike websites, there’s also not the same quantity of pike videos that exists for bass, walleyes, etc. But at My Outdoor TV, there’s no shortage of any type of fishing-related video.

That’s why if you want to watch pike fishing video, you shouldn’t waste your time searching for specialized websites with only pike clips, you should just go to My Outdoor TV and enter “Pike” in the search box. Two seconds later you’ll find these options, among others: Giant Summer Pike; Giant Pike, Bedding Bass; Houseboat Pike; Quebec Pike; Pike on the Prowl; Northern Pike Fishing; Seaguar Rigs for Pike and B.C Sockeye, and the list goes on.

Many of these video clips are from NAF-TV and feature NAFC Executive Director Steve Pennaz, so they may be of particular interest to NAFC members.
 
Silver Medal:  totalcoarsefishing.com 

This is an unusual pick, but I think pike enthusiasts will enjoy this site. It boasts information on a variety of rough, tough, fish: pike, catfish and carp. It also offers an international look at pike, a rarity for most American anglers.

It has quite a few archived articles about “the world of esox,” as it says: “A look at the different species of pike throughout the world, their distribution and their value in angling.”  Some articles delve into biology, analyzing thermocline and even throwing in the term “epilimnion.”

This site also has an interesting social networking option for pike fans that’s run through the publisher’s magazine, Pike & Predators. It looks pretty active and is certainly worth checking out.

Bronze Medal:  pikezander.co.uk

OK, I admit it. This is an oddball site by American standards. I included it only because it gives a glimpse into the European opinion of pike (and zander). It’s interesting to learn about the history of pike overseas, which this site offers.
 
Also, some pictures of massive pike – and by massive I mean 40-plus pounds. Unfortunately the quality of the photos is not very good, but the quality of the pike themselves certainly is.

Thanks Trev!  Great links!