Return of the Name the Critter Contest

Yikes! The Bay Daily "Name the Critter Contest" has risen from the deep!  The first reader to correctly name this species (the fish, not the human) in a comment on this blog will win a free Chesapeake Bay Foundation T-shirt.  Ready, set, go!  UPDATE:  The fish is a muskie, or muskellunge, an aggressive predator native to the Upper Midwest and Canada that has been introduced into rivers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

The muskie is being held by Jeff Little, a kayak fishing industructor and owner of Blue Ridge Kayak Fishing LLC, who took me out fishing on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pa., on Monday.

The first reader to guess correctly was Dan Shillinger!  Dan, email your t-shirt size and mailing address to me at tpelton@cbf.org, and we will send you your prize.

Thanks everyone for playing!

Tom Pelton

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Comments

[theresa]

its a large mouth bass

[Steve Fitz-Patrick]

Pike.

[david anutter]

looks like a Large Mouth Bass or Micropterus salmoides, but its hard to tell from that angle...LOL

[Kate Luxenberger]

Gotta go with Pike! Definitely hard to tell though.

[Josh Heath]

My vote is the Chain Pickerel(Esox niger)...especially judging by the muddy water and surrounding habitat.

[Steve Fitz-Patrick]

pike

[Allison Watts]

Northern pike

[Jorge Bogantes]

Chain pickerel

[jenny templeton]

catfish!

[Tom Pelton]

No, no, no, and no.....keep guessing

[Tom Pelton]

Think toothy.....

[Dan Schillinger]

pretty dang hard to ID a fish by looking down its throat.. my guess is muskie

[HCC]

If it's not a pike, do we have Walleye in the Bay area?

[williem]

muskie

[Rebecca]

Northern snakehead!

[Kristin]

tiger muskie