jaximus wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 9:59am:

to be honest, i dont know if ive eaten a pike from canada to date?

Eating fish from Canada reminds of eating saltwater fish> in this way.........when I eat grouper (that I caught, cleaned and prepared) I say "yup, this is the best fish" and then I eat mutton snapper and say "nothing is better than Mutton" and so on. It is all good.

Pike are not inferior to any of the canoe country grand slam species and in some respects are better especially if you use a bigger fish. Here, try this on your next fish fry.........catch a fat 33" pike and clean it in the manner I describe. Then have your walleyes and smallys along for the ride. Taste and compare. What I like is the change in texture from walleye to pike.......especially if you have big thick pieces. That is the key IMO.