I caught this last August. Can anyone definitively say what this is? The colors look like a pike, but the markings aren't the normal horizontally aligned yellowish beans. I'd really like to know. Pike? Pickerel? Tiger? The Missing Link? 😀
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If this is a pike in normal adolescent coloring, what I don't understand is why, since I've caught similarly small pike with normal bean markings:
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Just like muskies, or most any fish for that matter, you will have variations. I was fishing with Joe B this summer and he caught a 37 incher that had makings similar to the pike you show. Sometimes the markings come up on to the top of the back. I love that coloration… Those make for some of the prettiest esox. I will try to post some pics of pike i have caught through the years with varying colorations. We caught a couple this summer at Kesagami that look like long skinny lake trout with a pike head… Very unique bean pattern. Would hardley even call it a bean pattern….
Although I'd have to scan the pic (from way back in the 80's sometime) to prove it, we caught a pike with no marks at all. It may have been a Blue Pike, which were once thought to be extinct, but have been discovered recently in Lake Erie. I personally think its just an extremely rare variation similar to like how Chasin50 explained.
I knew Chad would open up his encyclopedia- like knowledge on "bean patterns"!!! love it… I too have an old 35mm picture somewhere of a silver pike I caught in the U.P. It was weird, took us a second to figure out that it was the rare mutant form of a pike and not a musky. Actually a pretty special fish, odds are probably better at catching a 50 lbder!?? But no, I got the silver pike instead!…
"Duke" said:
I knew Chad would open up his encyclopedia- like knowledge on "bean patterns"!!! love it… I too have an old 35mm picture somewhere of a silver pike I caught in the U.P. It was weird, took us a second to figure out that it was the rare mutant form of a pike and not a musky. Actually a pretty special fish, odds are probably better at catching a 50 lbder!?? But no, I got the silver pike instead!…
Did you eat it, perhaps introduce it to the game of rugby, maybe plant a m-80 in its mouth?
Varied size beans with tiger like marks up on back
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Small beans/Lake trout-like
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All of these are from the same lake.
"Chasin50" said:
[quote="Duke"]I knew Chad would open up his encyclopedia- like knowledge on "bean patterns"!!! love it… I too have an old 35mm picture somewhere of a silver pike I caught in the U.P. It was weird, took us a second to figure out that it was the rare mutant form of a pike and not a musky. Actually a pretty special fish, odds are probably better at catching a 50 lbder!?? But no, I got the silver pike instead!…
Did you eat it, perhaps introduce it to the game of rugby, maybe plant a m-80 in its mouth?
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"Duke" said:
[quote="Chasin50"]Did you eat it, perhaps introduce it to the game of rugby, maybe plant a m-80 in its mouth?
I'm hurt. [smilie=bs.gif] Just a quick picture and release!
My response is simply based on my interpretation of your "love" for pike… I remember many a "kill the pike" demonstrations along the shores of Sanford… [smilie=biggrin.gif]
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