I few years back I caught my first silver pike. I was just wondering who else has caught them, where they were, how big it was, what you were using, and what makes a silver pike so unique but, not unique enough to be recognized as its own species.

i went to the state records and theres no listing for silver pike and i know there was one at one time, and i want to say it came out of disappoint lake ? have never caught one but just saw one caught on a fishing show seemed to be more silver/blue hue instead of yellow/green

seems like we catch one or two on our annual nw ontario fishing trip. 2011 article in the star tribune

It isn't really unique (species wise) at all. It is just a pike with a color mutation. Not unlike a grey squirrel that is black in color, or a black bear that is brown in color. Some places the color form is more common but two normal colored pike can produce a silver offspring.

I will say that they are kinda cool looking though!

I've caught one, it was pretty unique and very beautiful. It was quite small (12" - narrow as a nail.) I think I caught it on a pink marabou jig 1/32oz. while fishing for blue gill.

There around caught a few on accident while ice fishing, they smell up the hole just like a regular blend snot rockets.

About two years back a fisherman caught what would have been the state record out of snow bank at Smittys. It was during the government shut down so he never got on the books. The article still hangs at Smittys .

quote shock: "i went to the state records and theres no listing for silver pike and i know there was one at one time, and i want to say it came out of disappoint lake ? have never caught one but just saw one caught on a fishing show seemed to be more silver/blue hue instead of yellow/green"

I think you're correct.
The state eliminated the Silver Pike from their records because of??????.
I knew the person that guided/caught two consecutive state Silver Pike records in Disappointment Lake, quite a few years ago.

quote Stern: "I caught a 4-13 golden trout on 2 pound tipit outta elbow lake in the wind river mountain in mid July 1999. The lake was frozen stiff with head deep snow on horse. There was a patch of water at the inlet. The clients where pissed until a golden was caught on every cast. I broke the world record golden on every line class outta the same lake and never reported it. I'm curious to what the silver phase state record is. I caught one last winter ice fishing that measured 43. I let her er go off course."

The 2011 fish was 42 inches and would have been the new state record...if there was still a state record for silver pike :)