are walleye and pickeral the same fish?

[Gilly]

They are same thing around here Michigan.

[Peanut]

I've always been told that the answer can be summed up as:

Scientifically speaking, they are two different species of fish. However, in some areas (mine included) common usage of the names can be interchangeable.

Given this, it will be hard to say who wins your bet.

derrek.

CANADIAN WALLEYE OPEN UP AND SAY "EH"!

[SUPERTROLLER]

Scott Walcott ,,,, Where do you live? You've got us wondering who wins the bet!

bottem line is the canadian fisheries biogists don't recognize the walleye and pickeral as the same or relative. nor does michigan and so on.... is there a fisheries biogist in the house? please stand up!
but in the books, records etc., there is no relationship biologically
that i can find. so....

The family Esocidae includes the true pikes or pickerels, all of which are members of the genus Esox.

Four species of pike are found in the United States and much of Canada. The best known species is probably the northern pike, Esox lucius. It is distributed over much of North America. The muskellunge, Esox masquinongy is also a well know species of this family. Other less known species include the chain pickerl, Esox niger, the little redfin pickerel, Esox americanus americanus, the grass pickerel, Esox americanus vermiculatus. Many different common names have been applied locally to each these species. So, scientifically speaking, the walleye pike (which is a misnomer) or as it is sometimes referred to in Canada as the yellow pickeral, is not a member of the pike family, but as previously mentioned in above posts belongs to the perch family - Percidae.

Therefore, in plain English, the yellow pickeral is a "common name" used in certain geographic areas to describe a walleye. However, technically speaking this is not correct. That is why common names are so misleading -- even the name walley pike is misleading, since again, the walleye does not belong to the pike family. I hope this helps and clears up the questions raised in this this discussion.

Remember: Always keep your eyes open and your feet dry.


S.v.m

thank you, to the previous. i knew you were out there somewhere!

[Backwater Eddy]

When it comes to solid knowlagable poop on fish Stizostedion vitreum man is "de man"!

Thank's Stizo..........><,,>

[Chad]

BE,

The guys I know in Canada would have said F'n Eh.

[Chad]

A rose by any other names smells as sweet!

My grandfather used to call sauger sand pike. Yet they are not realated to pike at all.