How to Use northern pike in a Sentence

northern pike

noun
  • Don’t freeze northern pike fillets.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • The lake is home to brown trout, walleye, northern pike, bass and panfish.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
  • Sheepshead, catfish and even northern pike prowl those waters, as well.
    — cleveland, 28 May 2020
  • Here are a few tips from the Griz on how to catch, fillet, and cook northern pike.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
  • Like the brown trout, the northern pike is an invasive species that feasts on other fish.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Bass and northern pike have been very active on the Crow River.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
  • Despite all of this, blue-colored northern pike are extremely rare in any part of the world.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Our catch included several dozen perch, a dozen walleyes and two northern pike.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The lake has a daily bag limit of 20 perch, five walleye and five northern pike.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The area serves as a spawning ground for lake sturgeon, walleye, yellow perch and northern pike.
    — Shantal Riley, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The lake is home to a wide variety of fish—smallmouth bass, walleye, and northern pike to name a few.
    — Outside Online, 2 June 2022
  • Walleye fishing has been tough at times, but anglers are finding northern pike by trolling crankbaits.
    — Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Anglers try their luck landing rainbow trout, bass, walleye, northern pike and more.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
  • Some feature walleyes, others lake trout, northern pike, Arctic grayling and more.
    — Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • And, with recent dam-removal projects, the river now booms with great blue heron, steelhead trout, and northern pike.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Rumor had it that Chickenbone Lake crawled with northern pike and big walleyes.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That area has a reputation for good northern pike and walleye fishing.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • Anglers also are finding smallmouth bass, northern pike, sauger and walleyes on the river.
    — Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The pike in the small lakes around the pines are an isolated group of fish, far from any other northern pike in Alaska.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The Jitterbug is effective for bass, northern pike, and even muskie.
    — Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Dad was a man of few words who managed to tell great stories that connected the pursuit of rainbow trout or northern pike with life lessons.
    — WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • After a few minutes of fighting, an extremely large northern pike rose to the surface of the water.
    — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2020
  • The lake is a popular fishing lake that has been stocked with bluegill, crappie, white bass, northern pike, yellow perch and walleye.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Anglers have used it to catch largemouth and smallmouth bass, northern pike, speckeld trout, redfish, and white bass, among many other species.
    — Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Compared to their cousins the chain pickerel and northern pike, even small, young muskies simply don’t feed as voraciously.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Largemouth bass and smallmouth bass will be in pre-spawn mode, while northern pike will be very active and feeding after completing their spawn.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
  • The fish, which Slater struggled to get into her kayak, was a 46-inch northern pike weighing 29 lbs.
    — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • With so much territory and so few anglers, your chances of landing some of the lake’s trophy-size lake trout, walleye, or northern pike are great.
    — Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In addition to walleyes, the lake features northern pike, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, black crappies, bluegills and muskellunge.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2022
  • With more than a dozen inland lakes and an abundant supply of muskies, smallmouth bass, and northern pike, the fishing at Tahquamenon is bar none.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023

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