Episode 215: Jessie Baker & Doug Wegner pt.2
Podcast Episode · Ugly Pike Podcast · 2025-01-24 · 1h 7m
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If you're looking for some really good tips on pike and musky fishing, be sure to follow the Ugly Pike Podcast, not sure why this is only on Apple.com platform, this should be on Youtube as well too, but I guess they advertise each episode on Facebook as a reminder to everyone, so be sure to Like / Subscribe to them on FB, then you just follow the link to the the clips on Apple.com to listen. You definitely can get burned out being on so many platforms these days, but some really good insightful information on this podcast, they recently had on Musky Guide Doug Wegner, he's always good for a new bag of tricks and tips when musky fishing. They still have a YouTube channel, but only seem to upload a few videos of their "musky" catches. And really what is up with that, where's the pike catches? Kind of strange having a youtube channel with just musky catches when it's called the Ugly Pike Podcast? Maybe should of been called the Ugly Esox Podcast? Ugly Pike definitely has got a better ring to it
, but really when you say that, you might think that's what it's mainly about, which is pike... That's why when I decided to name this forum Esox World, I just didn't want it be about musky, not only because I love to fish for musky but also pike, as well as tiger musky a hybrid, but then I also wanted to include Esox fishing across the world in other countries too, since it's so Vast and one of my sponsors is from France... I think this Forum turned out great and really there's nothing like it on the Internet, kind of like my Underwater Drone Forum, I didn't want it to just be another musky or fishing forum, plenty of boring forums like that around. A lot of people think every niche has been taken up on the web, believe me there's still a lot of growth to be made, especially within the pike and musky industry which is still just a small sport compared to bass fishing in the States, however like this musky angler Dkam fishing said, if you look at the Esox species world wide, pike is honestly the most popular freshwater fish if not the most popular. Interesting since a lot of bass anglers think it's sort of a trash fish, especially since it breaks their line and takes their baits... Remind you European fishermen also love carp fishing, where many American anglers also call carp a trash fish... It's interesting, because if you lived in a fishing bubble, like I used to when I was in my Teens before the internet, I would of never known how popular pike fishing is across the Globe. Technology and the Internet really opens up your mind and expands your way of thinking! I bet a lot of anglers probably don't realize at the whole scale, pike probably is the most popular freshwater species...https://www.esoxworld.net/threads/pike-worldwild-more-popular-than-bass-anglers-dont-realize-it.147/
I think what causes a lot of hatred towards pike here in the States is their stunted size(hammer handles) versus the gigantic size pike they get from European countries like France, Italy, and Germany where they are humongous. Some say it has a lot to do with fishing pressure, I think there's something else going on, maybe it has to do with genetics, the forage, or just the coldness where pike are more likely to thrive in Europe, because further you head up in North America like in Canada where it gets colder, the bigger they get, I think the temperature and weather can very impact how they feed, versus warmer climate like here in Michigan. Sure we have some lakes that produce some 40 inchers, but nothing like this, WoW!!!! European pike are about the same size as our musky here in the States and Canada!
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