Blue Pike Links
(Strizostedion vitreum
subsp. glaucum)

blue pike
n. ~A freshwater food and game fish (Strizostedion vitreum
subsp. glaucum) found in the Great Lakes. It is a variety of the walleye.
Also called blue pikeperch, blue walleye. Source: The American
Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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By Clicking on the USFWS Logo, it will take you directly
to USFWS Blue Pike information pages.

USFWS Statement: “On March 11, 1967, the blue
pike was designated as Delisted Taxon, Evidently Extinct in the
Entire Range. Within the area covered by this listing, this
species is known to occur in: Michigan, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania; Believed to be extinct. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region (Region
3 ) is the lead region for this entity.” Read more about: Black and Blue Jigs with A Black and Blue Trailer

Go to the Wisconsin Sea Grant page for some
real neat information
<– Click on the fish logo on the left

FROM THE WISCONSIN SEA GRANT PAGES:
“Dr. Carol Stepian of Case Western Reserve has confirmed that the
fish from Jim Anthony’s freezer is the offspring of a female blue pike
and a male walleye. Unfortunately, this means that its DNA is not that
of an authentic blue pike. She continues to analyze samples from the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but has not yet found an actual blue
pike. She says, “I’m not saying there may not be blue pike
somewhere. I just haven’t seen them.”

Click on the Bagheera logo to go to a site that
everyone will enjoy!
There is wonderful Blue Pike information there as well as many other
endangered and extinct species

From
Bagheera: “The blue pike was an endemic
fish of the Great Lakes region in the United States and
Canada…”

Click on me and I’ll take
you to the
NFC Site

FROM THE NATIVE FISHES CONSERVATION
SITE:

“NEWS FLASH: October 11 1999- The NFC
has set up a $500 minimum reward for the first fishermen to provide a
recently caught , live frozen Blue Pike or Hybrid. Take a picture of
your suspect fish along with it’s capture location and date and mail
the picture to NFC Blue Pike Hunt at……………… ”

AND MORE: “Still today, there
remains conflicting stories about its demise. Fishermen report
catching Blue Colored Pike in lakes in Canada and Minnesota. Rumors
have for years abounded about the Blue Pike translocated by private
individuals and government stocking programs outside their Great Lakes
homes and still carrying on. Could it be true?”

Lots of photos
and other “stuff” on this site

ANOTHER GREAT STORY.

“That was the best eating fish in the lake. You couldn’t beat
it,” said Scepura, who often went to Steel’s Bar on State Street
and paid 10 cents for a blue pike sandwich on Friday nights. “It
was the most delicious fish there was.”……..Erie Times
Do the logo thing to go thereBrian Cassoll Hunt won the song competition for his “Blue Pike
Blues” song. His was chosen from 20 submissions. Brian wins $500
To hear it go here! Blue
Pike Song You will be taken away from this website – click your back button
on your browser to return here!

Blue Pike Fishing.
An article from Ontario Fisherman Magazine
” The blue pike is not to
be confused with Lake Erie’s famous pickerel (walleye) bearing the
same name and now believed to be extinct. This fish is a full-fledged
member of the pike family (Esocidae). It feeds like a pike, fights
like a pike and looks like a pike except for one striking difference
– it has no body spotting, but exhibits beautiful iridescent
blue-silver flanks. In many …………………”

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