I read an article in field and stream a few years ago about some folks on Lake Champlain in VT who shoot pike with Rifles in the spring. It was a tradition and there was some rationale behind it. It may have since been outlawed. They took 7foot step ladders into the shallows where the fish spawned and picked them off with highpowered rifles. If you ask me, that is dangerous as crap, but to each their own.

Andy