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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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