I believe those are pickerel and not pike. Pike have the ability to destroy a trout/salmon fishery over time. There was a monster pike caught out of Sebago Lake in Maine earlier this year. Many see it as a sign that illegally introduced pike are now prospering in the lake and that it is only a matter of time before they destroy the smelt population thus destroying the salmon population. To my knowledge (and I hope to heck it's the case) there are no pike in Winni but plenty of pickerel.
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