12. The Brook Pike. Banded or Long Island Trout, Pickerel, Pond Pike. Esox americanus.
Length, twelve inches. Color, back, black ; sides, goldish, crossed by dusky blackish bars; fins, red tipped and not spotted like the Northern Pike. Snout, short.
Lives in brooks, ditches, and shallow muddy ponds. A good foodfish. Caught with worms.
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