I’ve heard this my whole live from various people that during the winter months northern pike will shed their teeth. I have found it hard to find any wildlife journal articles to verify this, I suppose there isn’t much interest in devoting research into this but one would think if this were happening it would have to do with something they evolved to do in conjunction with seasonal changes and metabolism slowing down or hormonal changes relating to spawning. Or I’m completely missing the mark here, possibly.

In my own experience I truthfully haven’t kept notes to log this throughout the year but those teeth seem to be a lot bigger, sharper, and in more numbers when they’re thrashing around on the side of a boat than coming up through a hole with limited room to wiggle around or impaled on the business end of a spear. I have looked at their teeth while filleting ones I’ve speared, mostly because that’s when I think of it, and from nothing to compare them to it seems like there are less and the ones that are there are worn down more but that could be due to many factors.

From now on I’ll have to take some pictures while filleting them and upload them to this post for you to be the judge.