Wow, and I thought I didn't like pike.

[Bender]

They are poisoning a like in CA just to kill the pike: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pike23sep23,0,1465879.story?coll=la-home-center

On my "home" lake I get more pike than bass, but what can you do. It's part of nature.

[djkimmel]

Those western states are at war with pike - pretty much all illegal plantings. I imagine the pike are having a field day in new waters eating all their stocked trout and minnows.