What kind of fish is this

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You be the judge, but it still looks like a Pike to me.


Northern pike
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This article is about the fish. For the Canadian band, see [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Northern_Pikes"]The Northern Pikes[/url].
Northern pike (Esox lucius)[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esox_lucius1.jpg"][/url]Northern pike[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_status"]Conservation status[/url]

[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Concern"]Least Concern[/url] ([url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List"]IUCN 3.1[/url])
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification"]Scientific classification[/url]Kingdom:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal"]Animalia[/url]Phylum:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate"]Chordata[/url]Class:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii"]Actinopterygii[/url]Superorder:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protacanthopterygii"]Protacanthopterygii[/url]Order:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esociformes"]Esociformes[/url]Family:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esocidae"]Esocidae[/url]Genus:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox"]Esox[/url]Species:E. lucius[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature"]Binomial name[/url]Esox lucius
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus"]Linnaeus[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae"]1758[/url][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_map_of_Esox_lucius.png"][/url]
The northern pike (Esox lucius), known simply as a pike in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain"]Britain[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland"]Ireland[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"]Canada[/url], and most parts of the USA, also called jackfish or simply "northern" in the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Midwest"]Upper Midwest[/url] of the USA), is a [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species"]species[/url] of carnivorous [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish"]fish[/url] of the genus [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox"]Esox[/url] (the pikes). They are typical of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish_water"]brackish[/url] and [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_water"]fresh waters[/url] of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e. [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holarctic"]holarctic[/url] in distribution). Pike grow to a relatively large size; lengths of 150 cm (59 in) and weights of 25 kg (55 lb) are not rare. The average length is about 70–120 cm (28–47 in). The heaviest specimen known so far was caught in 1983 at an abandoned stone quarry in Germany, where the species is known as a Hecht. She (the majority of all pikes over 8 kg or 18 lb are females) was 147 cm (58 in) long and weighed 31 kg (68 lb). The longest pike ever recorded and confirmed was 152 cm (60 in) long and weighed 28 kg (62 lb). A pike of 60.5 in (154 cm) was caught and released in May 2004 in Apisko Lake, Manitoba. Historic reports of giant pike, caught in nets in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland"]Ireland[/url] in the late 19th century, of 41–42 kg (90–93 lb) with a length of 173–175 cm (67–68 in), were researched by Fred Buller and published in The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike. Neither Britain nor Ireland has managed to produce much in the way of giant pike in the last 50 years, so substantial doubt exists surrounding those earlier claims. Currently, the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Game_Fish_Association"]IGFA[/url] recognizes a 25-kg pike caught by Lothar Louis in Lake of Grefeern, Germany, on October 16, 1986, as the all-tackle world-record northern pike.
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