muskie

noun, a large N. American pike, Esex masquinongy, esp. of the Great Lakes (COD)

“We just had a rowboat, and I caught this muskie on this fishing line that I had. It was a great big fish, could hardly get it in the boat.”

“You can sell pike now, legally. Didn’t used to be able to …You can’t sell bass. And maybe once in the spring they’ll open it up, and we can catch pickerel, but not usually. And you can’t sell muskie or any of them.”

“Like you used to see a lot of them, what they call St. Lawrence skiffs. They used to be down around the Gananoque area, were popular there for the fishing guides to take people out and troll for the muskie.”

“Did they ever catch any muskie or anything like that up there?”
“Yeah. My Dad did a lot of muskie.”