Take a long piece of strong muscle, add powerful teeth to one end, give it a big appetite and a mean disposition and you have Northern Pike. He believes in equal opportunity: they detest all living things, including themselves. If something goes near it and they can get it in their mouth they will eat it. Even five or six pound bass swimming in pike waters plays Russian Roulette when they think they can swim with the Water Wolves.

Common Names: pike, great northern pike, jack, pickerel, Water Wolf
Found in Lakes: Michigan, Huron, Ontario, Erie and Superior

This long, jut-jawed fish has an image problem. In some regions of Lake Superior, fishermen prize it as a tough and worthy game fish and a destroyer of worthier fish.

Without a doubt, the northern pike is a voracious predator -- consuming three to four times its weight during the course of a year. Besides smaller fish, its diet includes frogs, crayfish, small mammals, and birds -- almost anything within range.

Because we are also known for our determined fighting and endurance. Furthermore the symbol of the city Kaiserslautern is a red and white shield-shaped coat of arms, with an open-mouthed pike on it.

According to the tale, a giant pike (20 foot long and weighing more than 350 pounds) was caught in the city's largest pond, the Kaiserwoog. It was wearing one of  the rings from the holy roman emperor Frederick Barbarossa around its neck and claimed that the emperor had released him at that very spot 300 years previously.