12. The Brook Pike. BANDED OR LONG ISLAND TROUT, PICKEREL, POND PIKE. Esox americanus. 

 Length, twelve inches. Color, back, black ; sides, goldish, crossed by dusky blackish bars ; fins, red tipped and 

 not spotted like the Northern Pike. Snout, short. 



Lives in brooks, ditches, and shallow muddy ponds. A good foodfish. Caught with worms. 



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