No Ed- they are chain pickerel(notice chainlike markings) nice white meat but many Y bones. Boiled or baked filets, while not boneless, can be food processor/blender ground to make some nice fish cakes after adding spices of choice. Pike family fish can be bone-fileted after making specific longitudinal v-strip flesh extractions to remove their hair-like y-shaped bones. A few years back(4?) AndyS prompted me to bake them on a rumor he heard that would soften them, similar to salmon's still visible but soft edible bones = NOT!!

Anyway, the chain pickerel gill-plate(cover) from eye has a very unique marking in the shape of a crucifix. Andy, me and many Delmarva anglers have caught them in the rivers and impoundments up there. My most memorable was fishing as an early teenager with family, friends on a central, Md. Eastern shore pond called Unicorn. Also lower(south) Md. Eastern shore ponds/rivers near Salisbury and Pocomoke River. Oh yes, the good ol' days, right AndyS?!!