limeyangler Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Went to a small lake for a walleye session yesterday...we did good, normal haul of species...then my buddy Chuck hooks into this fish that looks exactly like a pike, with no markings and blue/purple in coulor......any ideas what it is.
kemper Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 blue pike? maybe, but those seem to be pickerel blue chain pickeral? reject pike?
Tdel Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Google seems to give info that would identify this as a Silver pike. A pike mutation. I have never heard of a silver pike but I am pretty sure I have seen one when I was in my teens. Tom
Guest Johnny Bass Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Looks like a pike that has been brushing itself against rocks...Or just like was said. A hybrid of pike. I have seen muskies with the same coloration.
Nemo Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 (edited) From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike Alternate forms [3] Another form of northern pike, the silver pike, is not a subspecies but rather a mutation that occurs in scattered populations. Silver pike, sometimes called silver muskellunge, lack the rows of spots and appear silver or silvery-blue in color. (Craig, 1). Edited July 25, 2008 by Nemo
ehg Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 I remember 4- 5 yrs. ago i think kgeary(anglerskingdom) did a post on these silver pike. Apparently there is a lake or two south of Nungesser where they are more common. So they are termed 'silver pike' some colour variation from a Northern Pike. ehg
MCTFisher9120 Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Your buddy caught himself a one and only.
Musky or Specks Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Thats definately a silver pike. And thats pretty cool. A blue pike is actually a pickeral.
Reef Runner Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Wow, that's a really rare catch. Amazing, first I've seen or heard of these fish. Thanks for sharing.
Greencoachdog Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 Very Cool and RARE!!! Thanks for posting that!!!
Disspatcher Posted July 25, 2008 Report Posted July 25, 2008 http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http...l%3Den%26sa%3DN check out all the different pikes!! this one def. a silver!
limeyangler Posted July 25, 2008 Author Report Posted July 25, 2008 Thanks for the replies guys, yup very cool is what we thought too. Thanks for all the links, specially Disspatcher's....i think its pretty conclusive....SILVER PIKE!
fishindevil Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 Yes i was going to say GRASS PIKE !!!! well done great colors ,nice picture of it as well!!! cheers
jwl Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 kind of hard to say from the pic, but looks to me to be a grass pike as well...they tend to not grow as big as northerns, but an identifying feature I think I can see in the pic is the small dark/black verticle line under the eye, although all the grasspike I have ever caught so to speak where dark green with alot of white spotted markings, and often thier heads look too big for the body like the fish still has to grow into it's head
limeyangler Posted July 26, 2008 Author Report Posted July 26, 2008 kind of hard to say from the pic, but looks to me to be a grass pike as well...they tend to not grow as big as northerns, but an identifying feature I think I can see in the pic is the small dark/black verticle line under the eye, although all the grasspike I have ever caught so to speak where dark green with alot of white spotted markings, and often thier heads look too big for the body like the fish still has to grow into it's head LOLOL....JWL...that's kinda like saying...."oh yeah......i have a shirt exactly like that....except its green , not black, with short sleeves and no collar" sorry, couldn't resist
jwl Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 LOLOL....JWL...that's kinda like saying...."oh yeah......i have a shirt exactly like that....except its green , not black, with short sleeves and no collar"sorry, couldn't resist ya ya , but you can see in the pic the distinguishing little dark line under the middle of the eye down to the cheek....that's how you tell if it's a grass pike and not a northern like in the pic that l2p posted. The one in the post has an unusal colour pattern for sure compared to the classic markings of a grass pike
FinS Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 mind you if u ever catch a silver pike (grass pike) in the 10 lb range i wanna see it
Burning Babies Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 ya ya , but you can see in the pic the distinguishing little dark line under the middle of the eye down to the cheek....that's how you tell if it's a grass pike and not a northern like in the pic that l2p posted. The one in the post has an unusal colour pattern for sure compared to the classic markings of a grass pike The line below the eye of a grass pickerel is much more distinctive. The line below the eye in that picture appears to be an artifact of the lighting. That fish is also larger than grass pickerel grow. It's a northern.
tonka-toy Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 Whatever it is I caught one just like it fishing for rainbows near a creek mouth a few years ago.Thanks for the post.
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