THE WALL-EYED PIKE 



OR PIKE-PERCH 



A NOTED game fish, neglected to 

 some extent by the various writers 

 on fish and fishing, one whose excel- 

 lent game qualities should attract the 

 attention of all anglers, and whose food-qualities 

 appeal to the epicure, is the pike-perch. In com- 

 mon with nearly all other species of American 

 game fishes, it is forced to exist under a variety 

 of names in different localities, many of which 

 almost bring about a loss of identity. Its scien- 

 tific name — Stizostedion vitreum — should make it 

 immune from a contagion of other appellations. 

 The proper name, pike-perch, which is Latinized 

 into lucioperca, while used generally by writers, 

 does not seem to secure favor with fishermen. 

 The majority insist upon calling the fish a wall- 

 eyed .pike, or more especially a pike. In various 

 parts of the United States, other names employed 

 are wall-eyed pike, yellow pike, blue pike (a vari- 

 ety), gray pike (a variety), glass-eye, green pike, 

 and even salmon. 



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