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Pike or Musky
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:58 pm
by Crawler
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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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:01 pm
by jig head
clearly 100% a pike!
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:05 pm
by Kpin
Looks like a pike to me, unless I'm wrong, (it happens
) and its some kinda funky hybred.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:16 pm
by iankrzyzanowski
Most definately a pike!
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:27 pm
by wolfe
PIKE.
(nice one, too)
W.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:32 pm
by wolfe
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:49 pm
by Wall-I-Guy
Actually, it's a
big Pike
Nice catch
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:07 pm
by ratsotail
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
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:22 pm
by wolfe
ratsotail,
I believe you've got yourself a pike there, as well.
W.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:13 am
by sportfish_dom
Pike for sure...nice one!
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:48 am
by RJ
Both 100% Pike....
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:44 am
by bottom feeder
both are dxefinitly pike
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:01 am
by Moosebunk
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:08 am
by Northern King
It has happened to me a few times too. I catch a pike somewhere where I am not used to catching pike and they are a lighter colour than I am used too and I often think it is a musky first.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:02 am
by Peppino
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.
