No time for northern pike? You might want to reconsider

When I was a kid, which is getting to be quite a while ago now, northern pike were important game fish. Part of that, I think, is that if you wanted to catch a big fish, pike were your best bet. That was before salmon were here, steelhead were a lot smaller than they get now, and muskies were rarer than honest politicians. But pike gave you a chance at an eight- or 10-pound (or even bigger) fish.