A screaming reel in total darkness

“Pike can strike their prey with pinpoint accuracy”

If you look closely at a northern pike, you will notice defined linear sculpted grooves running from the snout back towards the oversized forward-facing eyes. This is an extraordinary evolutionary development. Those oversized eyes allow prey to be identified and stalked from a distance, while the eyes’ unique positioning on linear grooves allow pike to strike their prey with pinpoint accuracy.

Pike are sight-based predators, but this is not the only tool in their hunting arsenal. Like all fish, pike possess a lateral line, a mucus-filled canal just below the skin. Water penetrates through small holes within the scales that manipulates a block of sensory cells called neuromasts situated underneath the lateral canal. This incredibly sensitive