Pike are Predators Busted!

If you have the time, watch this great video produced by pikers in Ireland. IFI are continuing to cull large numbers of pike on the back of game anglers hysterical crying that the "wild" brown trout are on the point of extinction due to the presence of pike in the loughs and lakes.

Reality check, pike are predators and if you stop messing around with the predator prey ration and starting creating habitat for trout to spawn, feed and have refugee from predators, then they will thrive in a balanced fishery rather than a over stocked stock pond.

IFI - Shameful

Kenny Sloan a pike angler from Ireland filmed the Inland Fisheries Ireland gill netting on one of the loughs.

Long had this practise of pike removal for the so called sake of game fish been though of as long gone, just goes to show you.

Below is the video taken by Kenny  along with his commentary, some may find it disturbing, as  it it is likely that a high percentage of the pike died.

A petition has been started to try to highlight and stop this practise sign here