Pike as you know are predators and often select larger more slender bodied prey such as perch and bass compared to wider bodied sunfish. Notice that YP & LMB have very similar body shapes when both are smaller (<12"). Pound for pound I doubt that pike eat more pounds of fish per year compared to LMB. However both eat significant amounts of fish each year.
For me it would be very educational to see, learn the food habits of a pike and a LMB both at 4-5 lbs from the SAME water body. IMO the big difference of predation impact between the NP and LMB in northern waters is the NP will ultimately grow larger and then eat larger fish than the LMB. This means the NP could be cropping too many LMB thus allowing more numbers of sunfish to survive in a pond-lake. Does this pond with the NP seem to have too many BG - sunfish? If it does the NP could be one of the contributing factors.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 02/08/18 10:07 AM.
