Did you know that you can catch and keep an unlimited number of Northern Pike at Eagle Nest Lake? Well, you can…Someone illegally stocked the Northern Pike in the lake and they  now threaten populations of trout and kokanee salmon. You are required to keep any or all Northern Pike you catch there.  The pike feed on rainbow trout fingerlings and kokanee salmon fry, in large quantities says the Game and Fish people. Pike were discovered in Eagle Nest Lake in November, 2010 when a 13 year old angler caught one. Recent surveys found pike range in size from 16 to 30 inches, indicating the fish have reproduced in the lake for at least four years. The pike in not the only invasive, non-native fish in Eagle Nest. In the mid 1990s, some one probably dumped a bucket of bait yellow perch into the lake and the perch population just exploded. Increase bag limits helped reduce the perch population. Moving fish from one lake or stream to another is illegal and can cause millions of dollars of damage to a fishery and years of work to try and remove an unwanted species. ……Eagle Nest Lake is managed as a quality trout and salmon fishery. The Department stocks about 600,000 fingerling rainbow trout and about 200,000 kokanee salmon fry in the lake annually……These dad-barn Pike are eating up all our fish and must go…….What do Pike taste like I wonder, chicken?   www.newmexicowildlife.com   Now those last two sentences are mine, not Game and Fish…..