Northerns

[taxidermist]

Norfork lake was stock about 35 years ago with Npike. so you can see the reproduction failed. Also they were stocked in Degray, and Ouchita I think it was. The tiger musky did well in lake Ashbough inN.E. Ark and when they escaped the Spring River Hatchery near Mammoth Springs.

[Wayne SW/MO]

They tried them in Stockton when it was built, but they didn't make it. I would imagine that some move down the Mississippi and Missouri when conditions are good and then because they aren't a migrating fish. they stay. How long they can survive probably depends on the water, how hot it gets and how clean. To have a population you would have to have two sexually mature mates arrive at the same ideal place, and the odds of that are pretty slim.

The term Jack salmon likely came from comparing walleye to Northern's, or Jacks and the migrating habits of salmon and the Jacks. If that is true, and it is most likely, there must have been more Northern's around in the past. It's possible because the earth was a lot cloder in the first half of the 18th century.

[mhall02]

You have to look pretty close to tell the difference in small pike and a pickerel:

http://basstardfishing.com/Identifying_The_Pike_Esox_Family.html