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Esox lucius, Pike or Great Northern Pike
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Description

This is the great sport fish of Western Canada and one of the largest freshwater fish in North America. It looks like a freshwater barracuda. A large pike is over 4 feet long with a slimy, serpentine body and clamp-like jaws with many fangs pointing backwards. Generally, it has light spots on a darker backing. The back color ranges from a brilliant green through olive-green to almost brown. Its eyes are a brilliant yellow.

Range of Habitat

This is primarily a freshwater fish found in clear, warm, slowly meandering rivers and in the warm, weedy bays of lakes. They occur throughout the four western provinces.

Biology

The northern pike is one of the longest living freshwater fish in North America with a life expectancy of up to 26 years. It spawns in the spring and scatters its eggs at random throughout the heavily vegetated floodplains of rivers, marshes and lakes. The eggs hatch 12-14 days later.

Pike are carnivores. Adults feed largely on other fish as well as frogs, crayfish, mice, muskrats and ducklings.

As a Food

Like its smaller relative, the pickerel, pike is a delicious food; the flesh is white, sweet and flaky with a delicious delicate flavor.

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