FISH AND FISHING. 



HOW TO IDENTIFY PIKE AND MUSKALONGE. 



Editor Recreation: In a recent issue of 

 your magazine I saw an article on muska- 

 longe fishing, in which the writer mentions 

 the Latin names of muskalonge and pick- 

 erel, the first as Esox nobilor and the sec- 

 ond as Stizostedium vitreum (as nearly as 



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boia South to Alabama and Georgia, and 

 from Vermont West to Montana, in all the 

 larger streams and lakes. In the Great 

 Lakes region it is variously known as wall- 

 eyed pike, yellow pike, blue pike, or simply 

 as pike; also as glass-eye, white-eye, and 

 dore or dory, by the French Canadians. In 



WALLEYED PIKE, YELLOW PIKb; PIKE PERCH, OR DORE. STIZOSTEDION VITREUM (Mitchill). 



1 can remember). I have looked the names 

 up in various dictionaries, but can find no 

 satisfactory definitions. Will you kindly de- 

 scribe these 2 fishes and give me their prop- 

 er names? 



In your last issue a correspondent from 

 Merrill, Wis., says, " Encouraged by this 

 success I continued, and took that afternoon 



2 bass, 2 pike, and 2 wall-eyes or dore." 

 We catch great numbers of wall-eyed pike 



here, but I can find nothing in any of my 



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the lakes of Northern Indiana it is errone- 

 ously called salmon or jack salmon, while 

 South of the Ohio it is known as jack. It 

 is propagated in large numbers by the 

 United States Fish Commission at the Put- 

 in-Bay Station and is known in the Fish 

 Commission reports as pike perch. 



Its nearest relative is the sauger or sand 

 pike, which has essentially the same geo- 

 graphic distribution as has the wall-eyed 

 pike, but is a smaller fish of much less com- 



SAl/GER OR SAND PIKE. STIZOSTEDION CANADENSE (Smith). 



books in reference to wall-eyed pike being 

 called dore. Please describe this fish (dore) 

 and let me know if that is the proper name 

 for wall-eyed pike. I enjoy Recreation 

 immensely. 



John E. Lord, Brainerd, Minn. 



The wall-eyed pike is known by various 

 names in different parts of its range, which 

 extends from the Great Lakes and-Assini- 



mercial importance. The accompanying il- 

 lustrations show the external differences be- 

 tween the wall-eyed pike and the sauger. 

 The most important and reliable character 

 distinguishing the 2 species, however, is not 

 shown. This is the character of the pyloric 

 caeca or worm-like appendages to the pos- 

 terior end of the stomach. In the wall-eyed 

 pike these are 3 in number, all of about equal 

 length, while in the sauger there are 5 to 7 



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