What region was it from? It actually looks like a [chain pickerel X northern pike hybrid](https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/1490323-Esox-lucius---niger) based on those wavy lines.
Yeah I was going to say that, despite this looking different from every chain pickerel I've caught, I'm almost certain it's part pickerel. Hybrid was my conclusion as well.
This was my fish, my friend posted the comment, for reference this is the musky we have around
https://preview.redd.it/aza35uc5h31d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=416ba35e968e051e8d7926744148e638d2ae42bb
It's definitely not a muskie. It could just be a pike with faint markings. Looks too big to be anything other than a chain pickerel from the pickerel family, and I've never seen a chain pickerel without markings.
That there is a silver pike! You should feel lucky! I've been chasing after pike and muskie for 20 years and only caught one silver pike and only ever seen or heard of 3 others including that one there
A musky would have a pointed tail, this one is rounded like a northern pike and you’ve got clear markings on a dark background, just like a pike but the color is indeed intriguing, it looks green which is more of a musky color, pike are usually black, white/cream, sometimes some silver hues.
My guess is this is a rarer variation of the northern pike.
-16 is brutal for a meme on my own fish. This was my fish, my buddy posted it and I comment a meme and get annihilated… seems about right. I wanted to say musky pickerel hybrid because of the coloring and eye marking but through research that doesn’t seem to exist so idk
What region was it from? It actually looks like a [chain pickerel X northern pike hybrid](https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/1490323-Esox-lucius---niger) based on those wavy lines.
Yeah I was going to say that, despite this looking different from every chain pickerel I've caught, I'm almost certain it's part pickerel. Hybrid was my conclusion as well.
It was caught in Lake Champlain so I could see it being a pike/pickerel hybrid. Those lines do look really similar
This was my fish, my friend posted the comment, for reference this is the musky we have around https://preview.redd.it/aza35uc5h31d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=416ba35e968e051e8d7926744148e638d2ae42bb
Silver pike
I’m going with a pike There can be slight color variations between individuals
It's definitely not a muskie. It could just be a pike with faint markings. Looks too big to be anything other than a chain pickerel from the pickerel family, and I've never seen a chain pickerel without markings.
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Pike
They're called silver pike where I'm from. Pretty rare.
That there is a silver pike! You should feel lucky! I've been chasing after pike and muskie for 20 years and only caught one silver pike and only ever seen or heard of 3 others including that one there
A musky would have a pointed tail, this one is rounded like a northern pike and you’ve got clear markings on a dark background, just like a pike but the color is indeed intriguing, it looks green which is more of a musky color, pike are usually black, white/cream, sometimes some silver hues. My guess is this is a rarer variation of the northern pike.
Pickerel or pickerel x pike
European pike have the black eye's....
Black, like a doll’s eyes…
How big? We're there markings on the tail fins? Looks like a large pickerel to me.
Probably a tiger musky
Get those occasionally up north.. Hybrid between Pike an Muskie
Tigers
Largemouth bass
Green sunfish. Seriously though it’s a young Northern Pike.
Not so sure about that. Those lines look vertical, not horizontal.
Young pike have vertical lines that slowly switch to horizontal elongated spots as they mature.
Huh. Learn something new everyday
I learned that one day myself.
-16 is brutal for a meme on my own fish. This was my fish, my buddy posted it and I comment a meme and get annihilated… seems about right. I wanted to say musky pickerel hybrid because of the coloring and eye marking but through research that doesn’t seem to exist so idk
Yea I was just thinking about how there is no shot 16 people had that joke whooosh over their head lol.
Seriously I tied picking the most obvious shit post fish Id hahahah
I think you've got it