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The northern pike gets its common name from its resemblance to the pole-weapon known as the pike (from the Middle English for 'pointed'). Various other unofficial trivial names are common pike, Lakes pike, great northern pike, great northern, northern (in the U.S. Upper Midwest and in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), jackfish, jack, slough shark, snake, slimer ...
Jackfish Lake is a lake in Parkland County, Alberta. The lake is named after the northern pike found in the lake, often locally called a jackfish. The lake also contains walleye and yellow perch. Parkland County operates the Jackfish Lake Recreation Area and Boat Launch located just off of Highway 770 at Township Road 522.
Like the northern pike, the chain pickerel feeds primarily on smaller fish, until it grows large enough to ambush large fish from cover with a rapid lunge and to secure it with its sharp teeth. Chain pickerel are also known to eat frogs, snakes, [14] worms, mice, other small mammals, [14] crayfish, insects, [14] and a wide variety of other ...
Northern pike are a non-native, predatory fish species with big teeth and a voracious appetite. They can live longer than 20 years and grow to more than 45 pounds.
A young E. lucius specimen — a "chain pickerel" in the original sense — in an aquarium.. The generic name Esox (pike fish) derives from the Greek ἴσοξ (ee-soks, a large fish) and appears to be cognate with Celtic, Welsh eog and Irish Gaelic iasc (fish), as well as alpine Gaulic *esosk which is consistent with the original indoeuropean root for the common word for fish, *pei(k)sk.
Northern pike: Esox lucius: Esocidae No Ohrid trout: Salmo letnica: Salmonidae No Pumpkinseed: Lepomis gibbosus: Centrarchidae No Rock bass: Ambloplites rupestris: Centrarchidae No Smallmouth bass: Micropterus dolomieu: Centrarchidae No Spottail shiner: Notropis hudsonius: Cyprinidae No Walleye: Sander vitreum: Percidae No Western mosquitofish ...
Nov. 3—Two new state records were reeled in during October by anglers in the Golden Isles, including one that was the first-ever state record for the species. Sean M. Tarpley, an employee of the ...
"Jackfish" or "jack", a western Canadian name for northern pike Mammals Jack (baboon) , a baboon who was the assistant to a disabled railway signalman in South Africa