I second grass pickerel. The length from eye to tip of snout, compared to eye to end of operculum, kind of rules out most other esox.

So, if eye-to-snout is noticably shorter than eye-to-operculum, then it is a pickeral?

Silver pike are semi-legendary, as are blue walleye, and I think that I heard of blue pike as well. If you say you have caught/seen one, you get looked at funny. I, personally, have never caught/seen either. With the advent of digital cameras, pictures are starting to appear.

Silver pike are semi-legendary, as are blue walleye, and I think that I heard of blue pike as well. If you say you have caught/seen one, you get looked at funny. I, personally, have never caught/seen either. With the advent of digital cameras, pictures are starting to appear.

Yes there are blue northern pike too, Marten river lodge in ONT. has them. I want to go there and try to get one, but I have not been able to yet. Look them up on the web for more info.

Mike,

Do you have a photo of that fish in daylight? Did you use a flash with that photo? What color container did you hold it in and for how long?

No I don't have a photo in the daylight, I released them after a quick photo & mesurment.
Its been a fue years, but I don't think I used a flash, it was getting dark so I could be wrong.
I did not hold them in a container.

Silver pike are semi-legendary, as are blue walleye, and I think that I heard of blue pike as well. If you say you have caught/seen one, you get looked at funny. I, personally, have never caught/seen either. With the advent of digital cameras, pictures are starting to appear.

The National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame lists them as Blue-Silver Pike.
They list Blue & Silver together.
All Tackele is 20 lbs 8 oz caught at Lac La Martre, N.W.T. Canada
They are also listed as "Kept" or "Ceatch & Release" from:
Aerie Lake, Minnesota (1 lb, 12 oz, 2 lb, 4 oz)
Disappointment Lake, Minnesota (16 lbs, 5 oz)
Cobham River, Ontario (14 lbs, 13 oz)
Lake LeGardeur, Quebec (18 lbs)
Chukuni River, Ontario (Kept 14 lbs, 7 oz, C&R 43" fish)
Big Spirit Lake, Iowa (12 lbs, 12 oz)
Headquarters Lake, Minnesota (14 lbs, 13 oz)
Favourable Lake, Ontario (44", 44", 39", 48" fish)
Laurus Lake, Ontario (one 41" fish)
Little Vermillion Lake, Ontario (43", 46", 39" fish)
Stork Lake, Ontario (one 41" fish)
Lake Pipin, Minesota (one, my 22" fish)

I read somewhere that Iowa was working with Silver Pike in one of their hatcheries.

If interested the Fishing Hall of Fame could be reached at:
National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame
P.O. Box 690, 10360 Hall of Fame Drive
Hayward, WI 54843 U.S.A.

Phone # (715) 634-4440
www.Freshwater-Fishing.org
e-mail: fishhall@cheqnet.net

Consider joining, or visiting, the Museum is great.

Mike

The "silver pike's" photo used a flash. The fish's sides reflected the light back into the camera. If it were ambient light, you wouldn't get such a stark contrast between the fish and background.

So, in essence, I can't tell anything from the photo since the flash "drowned" out the fish pattern.

As far as the other photo....I have never seen a grass pike with chain markings. Grass pike have bars (redfins) or vermiculations (grass)...

M.