The internet seems to be creating pike myths at a greater rate than ever before in history. Photographs of big pike appear with scanty details accompanying them resulting in wild speculation. Sometimes photographs of big pike are captioned incorrectly, sometimes accidentally, sometimes with the intention to deceive. The PAC has a number of piking sleuths within it's ranks who have successfully exposed the truth of some of these myths.

The fish in the right hand picture, has been variously claimed to have come from a lake in America and the Baltic. It has also been linked to a story of a large 40lbs-plus pike which was landed after it grabbed a smaller fish on the way in as shown in the left hand picture. In fact the pike on the right was caught in Holland by Ewout Blom. The PAC secured Ewout's story for issue 117 of Pikelines. You can now read extracts from that story, and find out exactly how large the fish was, here.

An earlier myth that did the internet rounds concerned a pike reportedly caught through the ice in Manitoba, Canada.

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