slang terms or regional terms can be confusing!

How many names are there for pike in Alberta alone? I can think of 9!

Pike
Northern Pike
Northerns
Hammer handles
Slough sharks
Jacks
Jackfish
Alberta Aligators

any ones I missed?

haha ok thanks James :bad_boys_20:

I call it RA-PALA too... but then I guess its a po-tay-toe vs po-tar-toe thing...
Unless the founder of Rapala corrects you otherwise, its fair to say its pronounced either way.

I remember a girl I used to work with gets soooo annoyed when people pronounce her name incorrectly, and it happens very often too.
Unfortunately everyone then did it on purpose just to get her on her nerves...but she was right to have corrected us as her name is hers and she is the only one that decides how it is to be pronounced.

I'm happy to have got so much insights from all of you to the names of these fish we're catching at our lakes.

I've heard them get called "snot rockets" on a Sask fishing show.

You missed a few:

Snot Rockets
Esox lucius
Water wolves
Snakes

I am going to start calling Rainbow Trout "Colorful Trout"

Then 20 years from now someone will start on a 3 page thread saying "rainbows? colorful trout which is right?" I have to admit this thread has some good entertainment value.

that is sure one nice looking pickel.:scared0018:

then its gonna be called pot of gold trout, then leprecaun trout

x2 on calling them pickerel in Ontario. In Quebec they call them Dore (Pronounced "Doory"). I've never heard a pike called anything different until I came to Alberta. Speared a pickle out of the jar with a fork this weekend.

Cutthroat Trout will be called Chuck Norris Trout

pickeril
 

I grew up in MB, usually when you are talking to a Manitoban they refer to Walleye as a Pickeril, I was the same till I moved to AB. I know it is completely wrong but that is just the way it is for some reason.

A lot of those guys on fishing shows put "awl" in their engine and "Greeez" in their Grease guns so I wouldn't put too much stock in the way they say things.:)

its the guys from ontario who call walleyes pickerels ,i use to work with a guy from windsor ont he argued with me all the time . i showed him a picture of a pickerel and he called it a northern pike or a walleye ,he said they have 2 names for them . he tried to tell me walleye was just an american term for a pickerel lol.there are no pickerel in ontario they have northern pike and walley but for some retarded reason they like to call walleye pickerel lol.there are only pickerel in the maritimes

Known in Europe as «Sandre», or walleye, pickerel is a freshwater, white fish found in abundance in lakes and rivers all over Quebec as well as in Scandinavia, England and continental Europe.......this quote is right of a website......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox look at that page and tell me...do they mean it is refering to a group of different fish and they come under the name pickerels...