This small northern pike has a beautiful camouflage pattern on its back. How would you like to be a prey fish and try to spot this fellow lying amid the weeds with the waves above dancing the sunlight over it?
Northern pike in Red Lake, Ontario, come in several colors and skin patterns.
1. Large spots -- Their skin is covered with large spots or rings, almost in a chain pattern.
2. Small spots -- It's the same pattern as above but the rings are much smaller.
3. Silver with no spots -- Some people think these are silver muskies but they really northern pike with no spots at all.
4. Beet-red fins
5. Green mottled fins
Also, the flesh of the pike has several distinct colors: white, yellowish-orange, pale green.
Although you might suspect the flesh of the fish could be influenced by what they had been eating, it is perplexing that you can get fish of all colors from exactly the same location.
Incidentally, they all taste the same -- delicious!
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