Northern pike really are the assholes of the fish world.
The fight to save Columbia River salmon could hinge on a major battle taking place in the basin’s biggest reservoir. It pits biologists against a fish: The invasive northern pike.
LINK (via: OPB)
Award-winning 2010 rant from Bob Wire there … “two or three in the room with you right now” – nice line.
I don’t know about pike, but as someone living in Britain (where we also have pleanty of pike but normally fairly well-behaved, know their place, stay at home ones) I do sometimes find myself having crazy Alice in Wonderland-style technicolor dreams about CARP … red, orange, brown, mirrored, mottled multi-hued Koi-expensive or just plain gold, they swim through my nightly headset-downtime wanderings and are clearly out to get not merely myself but any water they haven’t turned into a mostly fishless mudhole yet…..
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2019/may/28/carping-on-how-did-a-small-pond-become-home-to-10000-goldfish