Mark K
10/12/2010 6:23:00 PMLucius
10/12/2010 8:32:00 PMsparky1doug
10/12/2010 9:37:00 PMAJ's Dad
10/13/2010 8:40:00 AMI keep hearing people use that term. Invasive species, or Non Native species. I don't see the pike as either. I figure if a species enters a body of water by natural means, it then becomes a native species. Here's the wikipedia version of what a "Non Native Species" is. A species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental. To me distributional range means where it can go using a natural path. In reading past articles on pike in the POR, fisheries people have been noted as saying that the pike have arrived in the POR from the noxon resevoir. This would have them traveling through the Cabinet Gorge Resevoir, then Pend Orielle Lake and into the river. That would be a natural route accounting for "Non Human" activity", making it just the opposite of a non native species. Oh heck, I'm really dragging this out here. Native or not, I love catching the darn things and will do whatever I can to help promote a healthy fishery for years to come. As well as they seem to be doing, I don't think they are going anywhere and I like that! Happy Fishing to all, whatever "Species" you have a passion for.
sparky1doug
10/13/2010 11:39:00 AMkevinb
10/13/2010 2:23:00 PMand Montana have dropped the ball. Pete Maina and Jack Penny have looked into filming in the region but they,along with several others are not interested in fishing areas that have no form a protection pertaining to northerns.