Hehe, well, honestly, one hardly can't say a lot about the taste of pike. It is plain simple, or rather neutral. A typical pike is very low on fat, so one has to be careful when cooking pike - frying with too much heat runs the risk of making it tasteless pulp =) But smoking seldom fails, and with the rich aroma of smoke it actually is yummy. Perch is usually more tasty, but pike is the most common catch of the bigger fish in Finland. So for me it is food - nutrition to keep me fed. I don't care that much if each and every meal isn't super tasty =)