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Definition of Blue pike
1. Noun. Variety inhabiting the Great Lakes.
Generic synonyms: Dory, Jack Salmon, Stizostedion Vitreum, Walleye, Walleyed Pike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Pike
Literary usage of Blue pike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"They all admit, however, that they have never found any blue pike with roe, ...
We have been shown fish which some fishermen said were blue pike which ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Pike-perch and a few blue pike are taken in the Susque- nna, where shad are no
longer ... The blue pike, whitefish and herring, obtained on Lake Erie are of ..."
3. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"On Lake Erie the coloration varies somewhat with age, the younger ones being
known as blue pike, the mature fish as yellow pike, and the oldest and largest ..."
4. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"the country I have noticed its variableness of coloration, which might be inferred
from some of its names, as gray pike, yellow pike, blue pike, ..."
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