Mystery Pike

During my many wasted hours of reading up on pike fishing, I stumbled across a photo of another monstrous pike on a Netherlands fishing site. I wanted to know more about the big fish, but the entire site was of course in Dutch. After translating the text with Babel Fish (of course), I was able to determine that this fish is a mystery fish, its size and weight unknown. Rumor has it the fish is from Italy, which would make it the second huge pike we have seen from the boot shaped country. I guess there is more to Italy then soccer, pasta and super cars after all.

If you have an details on this photo, please let us know.

Huge Italian pike?

On the topic of mystery pike, I’d love to know details about the other Italian pike too…

Italy pike?

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November 30, 2007 by Clive Mathias

Filed Under: Fishing, Freshwater Species, Incredible, Italy, Netherlands, Northern Pike, Oddities
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  • avatar Fishing Fury - A fishing blog about two guys with a serious passion for fishing, the great outdoors, crazy adventures, and heart-pounding entertainment.
    3 years, 10 months ago #

    [...] Then again, maybe the next world record pike will come from [...]

  • avatar Gabriele De Santi
    3 years, 9 months ago #

    The 2nd italian pike was caught the last year on “Maggiore lake” (Lombardia, Italy). I saw this picture on the last year in “Le vie della pesca in acqua dolce”, a italian fishing review.
    Greetings

  • avatar Clive Mathias
    3 years, 9 months ago #

    Thanks for the info Gabriele!

  • avatar FRUTIEAUX Nicolas
    3 years, 5 months ago #

    This fish was caught in France. It was in a lake which name is Pareloup (in Aveyron). The lucky fishermen were Philippe COSTE et Arnaud FOISSAC and the fish’s weight was 19,4kg (43Lbs) and the lenght was 1,37m (53.9 in). You can find the origin website here : http://www.pecheaveyron.com/carnassier/carnassier.php

  • avatar Fishing Fury - A fishing blog about two guys with a serious passion for fishing, the great outdoors, crazy adventures, and heart-pounding entertainment.
    3 years, 5 months ago #

    [...] got an email the other day with some info on a mystery pike we posted last year. Looks like this beauty was definitely caught in Italy as we first believed. [...]

  • avatar Sebastian
    3 years, 4 months ago #

    Hello,
    you want find the biggest pike, there is only one man who can help you “Jan Eggers”(lives in Bovenkarpsel, Netherlands) in 1995 he write an article for the “rute&rolle” magazine, the name of the article is “101 biggest pikes”.In this article i found the biggest pike. It was caught in 1983 by Arno Wihelm in Dannstadt(Germany), the weight was 30,5 KG (61pounds)

    greetings
    Sebastian

  • avatar Robert Pieske
    1 year, 11 months ago #

    The Italian pike pictured was indeed caught on Lac Maggiore. The fisherman is a friend named Carlo Aimonetti. The fish was over 25 KG. He caught another a few weeks later that was just over 24 KG. This was about 3 years ago. Carlo fished muskies with me on Lake of the Woods, Ontario in 2005. Quit a gentleman and an excellent fisherman.

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