I drove to the Utah State Park yesterday in the late afternoon in hopes of catching some crappie and/or white bass for sturgeon bait. I first tried fishing the Provo River near where it enters Utah Lake. On my second cast I caught this:
![[Image: Pike.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/LqFF1pq7/Pike.png)
It was about 27" long and I would have kept it for sturgeon bait except that it had a tag on it, so following the rules I released it. Interestingly, it had sutures on the lower end of the stomach area. Do they operate on the pike before tagging and releasing them to make them sterile?
I moved into the marina and hooked something large, likely a channel cat of maybe a carp, and I had made a rookie mistake with my drag being too tight and it immediately broke me off. After a couple hours, I caught a bullhead and that was it for the day.
It was about 27" long and I would have kept it for sturgeon bait except that it had a tag on it, so following the rules I released it. Interestingly, it had sutures on the lower end of the stomach area. Do they operate on the pike before tagging and releasing them to make them sterile?
I moved into the marina and hooked something large, likely a channel cat of maybe a carp, and I had made a rookie mistake with my drag being too tight and it immediately broke me off. After a couple hours, I caught a bullhead and that was it for the day.