{"id":196,"date":"2021-08-25T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsniagara.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2022-06-01T04:14:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:14:05","slug":"bluepikelinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsniagara.com\/bluepikelinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Pike Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blue Pike Links
\n<\/span><\/b>(Strizostedion vitreum<\/i>
\nsubsp. glaucum)<\/i><\/p>\n

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<\/a>blue pike<\/span><\/b>
\nn.<\/b><\/i> ~A freshwater food and game fish (Strizostedion vitreum<\/i>
\nsubsp. glaucum)<\/i> found in the Great Lakes. It is a variety of the walleye.
\nAlso called blue pikeperch, blue walleye<\/b>. Source: The American
\nHeritage\u00ae Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition<\/cite><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Have
\nanother link with information about the\u00a0Blue Pike that might be interesting? Email us and tell us about it!
\nDo you<\/u> have something you would like to contribute? email us!<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/i><\/cite><\/p>\n

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By Clicking on the USFWS Logo, it will take you directly
\nto USFWS Blue Pike information pages.<\/b><\/p>\n

USFWS Statement:<\/b> “On March 11, 1967<\/b>, the blue
\npike was designated as Delisted Taxon, Evidently Extinct<\/b> in the
\nEntire Range<\/b>. Within the area covered by this listing, this
\nspecies is known to occur in: Michigan, New York, Ohio,
\nPennsylvania; Believed to be extinct<\/b>. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife
\nService Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region (Region
\n3<\/a> )<\/b> is the lead region for this entity.” Read more about: Black and Blue Jigs with A Black and Blue Trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Go to the Wisconsin Sea Grant page for\u00a0 some
\nreal neat information
\n<– Click on the fish logo on the left<\/b><\/p>\n

FROM THE WISCONSIN SEA GRANT PAGES:
\n“Dr. Carol Stepian of Case Western Reserve has confirmed that the
\nfish from Jim Anthony’s freezer is the offspring of a female blue pike
\nand a male walleye. Unfortunately, this means that its DNA is not that
\nof an authentic blue pike. She continues to analyze samples from the
\nU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service but has not yet found an actual blue
\npike. She says, “I’m not saying there may not be blue pike
\nsomewhere. I just haven’t seen them.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Click on the Bagheera logo to go to a site that
\neveryone will enjoy!
\nThere is wonderful Blue Pike information there as well as many other
\nendangered and extinct species<\/p>\n

From
\nBagheera: <\/b>“The blue pike was an endemic<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/em>fish of the Great Lakes region in the United States and
\nCanada…”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Click on me and I’ll take
\nyou to the
\nNFC Site<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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FROM THE NATIVE FISHES CONSERVATION
\nSITE:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“NEWS FLASH<\/u>: October 11 1999-<\/strong> The NFC
\nhas set up a $500 minimum reward for the first fishermen to provide a
\nrecently caught , live frozen Blue Pike or Hybrid. Take a picture of
\nyour suspect fish along with it’s capture location and date and mail
\nthe picture to NFC Blue Pike Hunt at……………… ”<\/p>\n

AND MORE: “Still today, there
\nremains conflicting stories about its demise. Fishermen report
\ncatching Blue Colored Pike in lakes in Canada and Minnesota. Rumors
\nhave for years abounded about the Blue Pike translocated by private
\nindividuals and government stocking programs outside their Great Lakes
\nhomes and still carrying on. Could it be true?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Lots of photos
\nand other “stuff” on this site<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a><\/td>\nANOTHER GREAT STORY.
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\n“That was the best eating fish in the lake. You couldn’t beat
\nit,” said Scepura, who often went to Steel’s Bar on State Street
\nand paid 10 cents for a blue pike sandwich on Friday nights. “It
\nwas the most delicious fish there was.”……..Erie Times
\n<\/i><\/span>Do the logo thing to go there<\/span><\/i><\/b>Brian Cassoll Hunt won the song competition for his “Blue Pike
\nBlues” song. His was chosen from 20 submissions. Brian wins $500
\nTo hear it go here!\u00a0 Blue
\nPike Song<\/a> <\/b><\/span>You will be taken away from this website – click your back<\/b> button
\non your browser to return here!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Blue Pike Fishing.
\nAn article from Ontario Fisherman Magazine<\/b>
\n<\/span>” The blue pike is not to
\nbe confused with Lake Erie\u2019s famous pickerel (walleye) bearing the
\nsame name and now believed to be extinct. This fish is a full-fledged
\nmember of the pike family (Esocidae). It feeds like a pike, fights
\nlike a pike and looks like a pike except for one striking difference
\n\u2013 it has no body spotting, but exhibits beautiful iridescent
\nblue-silver flanks. In many …………………”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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