Northern Pike Lakes In Minnesota, Do You Have A Favorite?

[Rick]

Where is your favorite Northern Pike Lake? Do you have any Pike pics?

[ANYFISH2]

Favorite is for sure Basswood lake.  Of course I dont get there often.  Just love the lake.

 

Locally, Thunder and Platte/Sullivan are the my go to lakes to scratch the pike itch.

[Rick]

I really like the Straight River, an underutilized resource that carries some big pike but that's not a lake.  So I'm going with Mille Lacs Lake, it puts out some real beauties.

[gimruis]

I second Mille Lacs, but I rarely actually target Northern Pike (actually I can't even remember the last time).  I'll sometimes pile into a friggin' gator out there when chasing muskies.  The most recent study of the pike population in Mille Lacs showed that about 35% of the pike in that lake are over 30 inches in length.  Seems like most of our smaller lakes are just plum full of small, slimy snakes now, hence the new pike regulations.

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LOWs, DL, and Middle or Big Cormorannt.

 

[Rick]

23 hours ago, [email protected] said:

LOWs, DL, and Middle or Big Cormorannt.

 

Any pile pics you care to share?

[JBMasterAngler]

Secret little lake in the Grand Marais area. Very nice average size. Also, St. Croix River...always nice to hook into a big pike on the fringes of the cities.

[monstermoose78]

Green around Princeton, Lori by Day, Mille lacs, Upper Red, and basswood!

[gimruis]

Green has a very healthy population of pike, I can verify that.  And the DNR's most recent survey on that lake produced a 44 incher.

[Abndoc]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 10, 2018 by Abndoc
to many pics added

[Abndoc]

Cannot beat Mille lacs right now, all in the last 10 days