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Fish ID please
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:25 pm
by The Quadfather
This isn't a picture of me...or my fish, but it was one of the sample pics. that rotate on the home page. It caught my eye.
It came from the Cowlitz river, but I am thinking that isn't this some kinnd of pike?? Seemed odd for the Cowlitz, but what do I know. What do you think.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:38 pm
by kevinb
I'm not to familiar with the story. But the guy stated something like "Felt like a salmon on the Cowlitz" I'm not sure where it was caught...but pretty sure it wasn't the Cowlitz. If it was...I'm going there:-"
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:29 am
by dilbert
lake Mayfield is stocked with Tiger Muskie and it is connected to the Cowlitz.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:03 am
by kzoo
Looks like a Northern Pike. The fins are a little red for some reason, maybe it was spawning.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:36 am
by fishnislife
Looks like a Pike to me. Might be the wrong description under the picture on the home page. They are known to do that. 
fishnislife
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:10 am
by Marc Martyn
Northern Pike
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:39 am
by Fisherman_max
quadradomus wrote:This isn't a picture of me...or my fish, but it was one of the sample pics. that rotate on the home page. It caught my eye.
It came from the Cowlitz river, but I am thinking that isn't this some kinnd of pike?? Seemed odd for the Cowlitz, but what do I know. What do you think.
this question has come up many times!
if you read the caption is states "hit like a steelhead on the cowlitz"
he is saying that the northern pike fought like a steelhead, and he specifically reffered to a steelhead he fought on the cowlitz river, not that the pike is from that river.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:05 am
by fish4brains
It is in fact a Northern Pike. I would not describe their fight as anything even close to a Steelhead.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:01 pm
by huntncoug
That is a northern pike, they fight very hard but very different from a Steelhead.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:04 pm
by muskyhunter
Maybe a pickerel...
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:44 pm
by kevinb
100% sure....its a juvenile pike. Trust me....I'm retarded but I know pike:-$
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:49 pm
by Marc Martyn
kevinb wrote:100% sure....its a juvenile pike. Trust me....I'm retarded but I know pike:-$
Really? You could have fooled us:-"
It's great to see someone find humor in themselves:thumright
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:02 pm
by kevinb
Marc Martyn wrote:kevinb wrote:100% sure....its a juvenile pike. Trust me....I'm retarded but I know pike:-$
Really? You could have fooled us:-"
It's great to see someone find humor in themselves:thumright
haha, Always gotta be able to laugh at yourself.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:42 am
by Mike Carey
I'm guessing this is another photo glitch. Seems like I remember that picture from Pend ORielle river, but I could be wrong, that was thousands of reports and pictures ago.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:41 pm
by EastsideRedneck
I'm with Musky' on this one... It looks an awful lot like a chain pickerel to be more specific. Not that it really matters anyway since they are in the pike family.
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:40 pm
by Fisherman_max
i am positive its a pike, it does not have the tell-tale "chain-link" like pattern that is displayed on a normal chain pickeral
RE:Fish ID please
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:17 pm
by panfisher
i've caught hundreds of these SMALL "NORTHERN PIKES" great eating size, have caught many "chain pickerel's" which this is not. <')//<