Guess The Weight Of The Pike

[Elton]

A mate just sent me this - he has no idea what this pike might have weighed when alive, but would be interested to hear your ideas:

 

[Chris Plumb]

Looks like the famous Endrick Pike head which was rumoured to be circa 70lb!

 

 

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[carphead07]

Looks like the famous Endrick Pike head which was rumoured to be circa 70lb!

C.

yer looks like a pike head not a full sized pike

[Neil G]

Looks like the famous Endrick Pike head which was rumoured to be circa 70lb!

C.

 

Yep.....cerainly does look like that pike head

[Sportsman]

This is the Endrick pike head

 

endrick_pike.bmp

 

I would have thought the head under discussion belonged to an upper 20.

[Chris Plumb]

Yep.....cerainly does look like that pike head

 

If it is The Endrick Pike then its true weight was never established - the fish having been found dead in the marshes in the margins of Loch Lomond. Buller in his Book of Mammoth Pike - puts it nominally at 70lb and I believe Dick Walker attributed a similar weight to it. However many think these are over estimates with 50lb being more conservative. I seem to recall an even bigger skull than the Endrick Pike coming from the River Wye in more recent times - though that could just be my failing memory!!!

 

 

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[Dick Dastardly]

Totally pointless guessing as anyone who has caught a few pike from different types of water will know that head size is no indication of total body size.

[flyfish]

Which one's the pike head lol

[Peter Waller]

Its got a big mouth so it must be an Essex fish, Ardleigh perhaps? That being the case, Budgie, mid twenty when complete and healthy?

[zinghaha]

I love pike fishing and that was probably mid 20's at best.