How to Use northern pike in a Sentence
northern pike
noun-
The lake is home to brown trout, walleye, northern pike, bass and panfish.
— Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022 -
But the real draw to a fly-in camp like Cree River Lodge (creeriverlodge.ca) is northern pike.
— Colin Kearns, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2020 -
Bass and northern pike have been very active on the Crow River.
— Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021 -
Like the brown trout, the northern pike is an invasive species that feasts on other fish.
— Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2020 -
The lake has a daily bag limit of 20 perch, five walleye and five northern pike.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018 -
The lake is home to a wide variety of fish—smallmouth bass, walleye, and northern pike to name a few.
— Outside Online, 2 June 2022 -
The pike in the small lakes around the pines are an isolated group of fish, far from any other northern pike in Alaska.
— Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021 -
The fish, which Slater struggled to get into her kayak, was a 46-inch northern pike weighing 29 lbs.
— Michael Hamad, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2020 -
Sheepshead, catfish and even northern pike prowl those waters, as well.
— cleveland, 28 May 2020 -
Despite all of this, blue-colored northern pike are extremely rare in any part of the world.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2020 -
The area serves as a spawning ground for lake sturgeon, walleye, yellow perch and northern pike.
— Shantal Riley, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 -
And, with recent dam-removal projects, the river now booms with great blue heron, steelhead trout, and northern pike.
— Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022 -
This year's northern pike data has also shed more light on the need to reconfigure the riverbed at the old North Avenue dam site.
— Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022 -
The Jitterbug is effective for bass, northern pike, and even muskie.
— Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Some feature walleyes, others lake trout, northern pike, Arctic grayling and more.
— Star Tribune, 3 June 2021 -
On the fisheries side, over the last several weeks the DNR collected eggs from muskellunge, northern pike and suckers, none of which was done in 2020.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2021 -
After a few minutes of fighting, an extremely large northern pike rose to the surface of the water.
— Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2020 -
Dad was a man of few words who managed to tell great stories that connected the pursuit of rainbow trout or northern pike with life lessons.
— WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022 -
Summer and fall are excellent times to fish the rivers, Donofrio said, and anglers have the chance to catch walleyes, northern pike and muskellunge while trying for smallmouth.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017 -
With more than a dozen inland lakes and an abundant supply of muskies, smallmouth bass, and northern pike, the fishing at Tahquamenon is bar none.
— Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2022 -
On the Rainy River, anglers are catching a mixed bag of walleye, sauger, smallmouth bass, northern pike and sturgeon.
— Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021 -
Our catch included several dozen perch, a dozen walleyes and two northern pike.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018 -
Anglers also are finding smallmouth bass, northern pike, sauger and walleyes on the river.
— Star Tribune, 8 July 2021 -
Grand Rapids area: Most varieties of fish — bass, panfish, northern pike and walleye — have been active on area lakes.
— Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021 -
Bass have remained active in shallow waters, and anglers are finding northern pike off the sharper breaks in depths of 14 to 20 feet.
— Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021 -
Other species taken from the creek included a northern pike, which is native, and a pregnant goldfish - the size of a small dinner plate – that is not.
— Peter Krouse, cleveland, 13 May 2022 -
Anglers have used it to catch largemouth and smallmouth bass, northern pike, speckeld trout, redfish, and white bass, among many other species.
— Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024 -
With so much territory and so few anglers, your chances of landing some of the lake’s trophy-size lake trout, walleye, or northern pike are great.
— Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023 -
Just some of the fish in the lake include bluegill, largemouth and smallmouth bass, muskellunge (muskie), northern pike, sturgeon, sunfish, walleye and yellow perch.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2023 -
Ciscoes are prized bait during winter fishing for lake trout and northern pike and fetch high prices for retailers.
— Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
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