Hi all,
I am having an argument with a co-worker...could you guys please tell him what he caught........pike or musky !
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Pike or Musky
) and its some kinda funky hybred.-
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(nice one, too)-
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http://www.wiscfish.org/fishid/wFrmFish ... =Northern Pike&sfName=Esox lucius&fam=Pikes (Esocidae)&GID=151
USE THIS LINK, taken from Bucketmouth's useful thread. Should put you right onto a pike I.D. page.
W.
USE THIS LINK, taken from Bucketmouth's useful thread. Should put you right onto a pike I.D. page.
W.
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Crawler,
Nice Pike for sure! Don't feel bad about being a bit unsure which species you caught. I landed one just like it (much smaller though) from the downtown portion of the Rideau River and it really stumped me for a day or two also. Perhaps, since I was fishing for Musky I had Musky on the brain, but the markings were really quite muted and looked nothing like the Pike I've caught in recent years. My friend Pepe says he believes it is a hybrid mix of some sort...still looking for a definitive answer though.
Here's a pic I took of it as I was soloing out of a canoe...same muted coloring.
Beatiful fish you caught Crawler!
ratsotail
Nice Pike for sure! Don't feel bad about being a bit unsure which species you caught. I landed one just like it (much smaller though) from the downtown portion of the Rideau River and it really stumped me for a day or two also. Perhaps, since I was fishing for Musky I had Musky on the brain, but the markings were really quite muted and looked nothing like the Pike I've caught in recent years. My friend Pepe says he believes it is a hybrid mix of some sort...still looking for a definitive answer though.
Here's a pic I took of it as I was soloing out of a canoe...same muted coloring.
Beatiful fish you caught Crawler!
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Did you by chance notice the pores under the jaw?
Muskies are light colored and usually have dark bars running up and down their long bodies. That's the opposite of northern pike, which have light markings on a dark body. Muskies are silver, light green, or light brown. The foolproof way to tell a muskie from a northern is to count the pores on the underside of the jaw: A muskie has six or more. A northern has five or fewer.
The muskie, unlike the northern pike, has six to nine pores (usually seven) on each side of the underside of the lower jaw. The lower half of the muskie's cheek is not scaled. The lobes of the muskie's tail are more pointed than those of the northern pike.
Muskies are light colored and usually have dark bars running up and down their long bodies. That's the opposite of northern pike, which have light markings on a dark body. Muskies are silver, light green, or light brown. The foolproof way to tell a muskie from a northern is to count the pores on the underside of the jaw: A muskie has six or more. A northern has five or fewer.
The muskie, unlike the northern pike, has six to nine pores (usually seven) on each side of the underside of the lower jaw. The lower half of the muskie's cheek is not scaled. The lobes of the muskie's tail are more pointed than those of the northern pike.
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