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Why Is This Northern Pike Neon Green? Experts Have Answers
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| 9-1-15
| Daniel Xu
Posted on 09/01/2015 3:13:20 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Its not nuclear mutation or a new species, so that rules out the more interesting answers, but why is this northern pike fluorescent green? Canadian angler Randy Straker caught this bizarre-looking fish from Great Slave Lake in Canadas Northwest Territories on Sunday, but he still has not figured out what gave the fish its strange color.
The whole top of the fish had a different green, he told the CBC. If you look at the mouth, it looked like green lipstick. It was so bright.
Straker was fishing with a friend, Craig Thomas, and neither men immediately noticed the fishs odd coloration due to their sunglasses. Yet when Straker moved to bring the pike in, he stared down the fishs mouth and noticed that its throat was a startlingly bright green. It was like nothing he had ever seen before.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; chromatophores; fish
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To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog
Spontaneous genetic mutation.
To: LeoWindhorse
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:16:34 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: LeoWindhorse
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:18:44 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: LeoWindhorse
fish lips Don't know why but that made me think of hillary.
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:20:04 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: BeauBo
Musta been somethin’ it et.
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:20:33 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: BeauBo
Why does one keep a pike? To hang on their fences like we do gar and huge catfish heads in the Hill Country?
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:21:04 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: smokingfrog
Algae bloom and invasive species be kikkin mijniesoda’s lakes.. We could use some of their rain here. Crops looked good.
I was happy to see low mosquityo activity on a recent visit.
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:23:48 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: smokingfrog
I'm sorry, I was up there with Craig last week, and put ten gallons of green food coloring into the lake. It was supposed to be a prank on Straker, but things spiraled out of control.
j/k
5.56mm
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:26:17 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:29:56 PM PDT
by
nesnah
(Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
To: M Kehoe
I wished I had time to drop a hook or two.. My fault.. I couldnt stand the peace and quiet.. Of a wind swept lake.. A county fair.. .. I planted my oldest brother.. In a wind swept plot..next to mom and dad and mom 2 and number two brother a screaming eagle ..
They both loved fishing..
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:30:42 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Good afternoon.
I would normally ask if you were doing well. Plus I would wish you the best.
Your post hit me hard. Don't know what to say.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:36:54 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: smokingfrog
EPA must have had a toxin release upstream
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:41:16 PM PDT
by
HangnJudge
(Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:54:26 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: txhurl
Why does one keep a pike? Cold water pike is good eating, remember to take out the Y bones.
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:58:53 PM PDT
by
xone
To: BeauBo
Green lips, sink ships
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posted on
09/01/2015 3:59:25 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We are not descended from fearful men*)
To: smokingfrog
Some of the most common theories were that the fish was affected by pollution
Idiots. All that heavy industrialization on the shores of the Great Slave lake is polluting the water. LOL
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:17:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: smokingfrog
It’s a Great Green Pike!
Put an oxygen bottle in his mouth and a bourbon bottle in my hand and I’ll get rid of him.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:23:10 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: smokingfrog
I love hooking into a big northern pike. It’s a battle.
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posted on
09/01/2015 4:23:58 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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