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Pike in your Waters?

 

Feature article and written by PAC Press Officer, Chris Bishop.

 

In it Chris takes a look at the subject and relates some successes where attitudes have been changed and how pike can successfully help fisheries managers, in the task of controlling silver fish stocks and secondly in providing a winter income for commercial fisheries and winter sport for club anglers.

The content and information provided in the article and in the Pike Anglers Club publication, ‘Pike In Your Waters’, supplied with the Newsletter to NAFAC members gives an insight into the way pike can be of benefit to a fishery rather than as many mistakenly believe them to be, a nuisance and that the only good pike is a dead one. Nothing could further from the truth as you will see from the article.

 

The article has been extracted from the Newsletter and is made available, along with a copy of the PAC publication for you to download and read, hopefully some of the myths can be dispelled and perhaps anglers and fisheries will reconsider the value of pike as species in fisheries and perhaps encourage clubs and fisheries to give this value a thought!

 

Download a copy of the article Pike-in your-waters(NAFAC).pdf

Download a copy of the booklet Pike in Your Waters here

 

This 20 page booklet gives an in depth, and balanced, appraisal of the role of the pike in a wide range of fisheries.

 

As well as explaining the truth about pike and their value as a sporting fish, Pike in Your Waters also includes advice about maintaining good quality pike fishing in the long term. All this is backed up by a wealth of scientific data from around the world.

 

 

 

Pike in Your Waters has been greatly updated since it was first published in 1992 and now carries the endorsement of the National Angling Alliance. Printed copies of the booklet can be obtained from the PAC. PAC website can be found at: www.pacgb.co.uk