![]() ![]() A dusky vertical bar angles downward and slightly backward from the eye. The back and sides are olive or yellowish-brown, sometimes uniformly colored, but often barred or mottled with a darker color. ![]() Like the chain pickerel, it has both the gill cover and the cheek fully scaled, with a row of 4 sensory pores along the undersurface of the jaw, but the snout is shorter than the chain pickerel’s, and the distance from tip of snout to center of eye is equal to or less than the distance from the center of the eye to the rear margin of the gill cover. ![]() Like other pikes, this fish has a duckbill-shaped snout, large mouth with many sharp teeth and a single dorsal fin, which is similar in shape and size to the anal fin, and both are positioned far back, near the forked tail fin. Dorsal, or back fin, placed far back on the body. Back and sides olive or yellowish brown with a chainlike pattern of dark lines. Elongated body, snout shaped like a duck’s bill, large mouth with many sharp teeth. ![]()
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