Personal best ...Pickerel.

That’s awesome. I’ve never caught one and used to fish the Amite River a lot as a kid, which is known to have them. What lure/bait?

Agree, grew up close to there, the Creek was full of then, that’s a good one for there

Caught my first one in Chicot a couple years ago. Maybe a little smaller than that one. Caught on a spinnerbait. Put up a good fight.

Awesome fish.

No idea if they eat the same as Northern Pike, but I catch them every trip here using orange Rapala wobblers/jerkbait or Kuusamo shiny gold/silver spoons with red Ruby in the center.

Where I grew up in South Mississippi the creeks and rivers were full of them. We called them jackfish as well and I was always that the meat was much too bony to eat but I never tried it so I don't know for sure.

Franklin Creek and Dog River both in South Mississippi.

That's a big one! I think they're called grass pickerel in southeast MO here and it's been 50 years since I landed one.

As a teenager in the 1960’s a friend and and I would fish at night for largemouth bass in several central Louisiana lakes and catch many chain pickerel on top water baits. Years later after my degree in fisheries science from LSU, I worked with the Florida Game and Fish Commission for 5 years and chain pickerel were very abundant, and quite tasty; I did a detailed life history study of chain pickerel.

Thank goodness, I was able to return back to Louisiana as a marine biologist in 1979, and am now happily retired in south Louisiana.

Chain pickerel are an under utilized sport fish in Louisiana, and while bony the white flesh is very tasty.

That’s a bigass jackfish. We used to catch lots of them in Bayou Desiard growing up. Never caught one that big

lake ramsay has quite a few in south la.

aslo caught em in money hill

That is an awesome catch!