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Caught a Chain Pickerel Yesterday
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:17 pm
Definitely a first for me, and quite unexpected. Neat fish. Escribano Point WMA between Milton and Navarre. Place is awesome.
I took a better picture of it as you can see in this photo, but I got off of the board to take a leak in about 2 feet of water and sunk in the mud about 2 feet and my phone was in my pocket and it got soaked and died so I only have the one that my gf took.
I took a better picture of it as you can see in this photo, but I got off of the board to take a leak in about 2 feet of water and sunk in the mud about 2 feet and my phone was in my pocket and it got soaked and died so I only have the one that my gf took.
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Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:22 pm to Funky Tide 8
I’ve caught a few of them in NWFL. Pretty fish. When I was a kid we had a swampy area behind my house and I would go back there with a dip net and just blindly dip it for whatever. Caught mostly small crawfish, but one time I got like a 3” chain pickerel. I put it in my little aquarium in my bedroom and fed it mosquito fish and crawfish. Absolutely voracious feeder. It would attack those mosquito fish instantly, and some were nearly the same size
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:22 pm to Funky Tide 8
Pulled many a jack fish out of Bayou Desiard. Never caught one that big though
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:38 pm to LSUballs
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Pulled many a jack fish out of Bayou Desiard
Those and Grinnel are the spinner bait killers.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 1:56 pm to Funky Tide 8
Two lakes in my area have lots of them and have saved many a February trip for me.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 2:06 pm to Barneyrb
Just an FYI, if you catch your first one don't lip it....they have very sharp teeth. Learned that lesson the hard way.
Catch a bunch of them here in Central Florida, here they really like shallow areas with heavy vegetation. (1-2 foot of water)
Catch a bunch of them here in Central Florida, here they really like shallow areas with heavy vegetation. (1-2 foot of water)
Posted on 4/14/25 at 2:23 pm to Funky Tide 8
Those things are all over the lakes in North Louisiana - Jack Fish.
We knock em in the head and throw them back
trash fish
We knock em in the head and throw them back
trash fish
Posted on 4/14/25 at 2:27 pm to The Torch
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We knock em in the head and throw them back
Idiot
Posted on 4/14/25 at 3:00 pm to Funky Tide 8
Thats a Pike. Wonder what its doing all the way down here
Posted on 4/14/25 at 3:33 pm to Funky Tide 8
Why not pee off the board?
Posted on 4/14/25 at 3:41 pm to WillFerrellisking
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Why not pee off the board?
I didn't want to get piss on the board. In hindsight, washing a little pee off of the board would have been more ideal than drowning my phone. I actually hated that phone anyway, so its all good.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 3:41 pm to The Torch
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We knock em in the head and throw them back
trash fish
Apparently they are delicious, but hard to get all the bones out.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 3:42 pm to computerguy
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Just an FYI, if you catch your first one don't lip it....they have very sharp teeth. Learned that lesson the hard way.
If you looked at that mouth and put your hand in it....Fk that
Posted on 4/14/25 at 3:46 pm to Funky Tide 8
When you filet them there are pin bones that kind of run down the center of the filet in a light C shape. You can pull them out with needle nose which is time consuming or cut them out but you end up wasting a lot of meat.
In my opinion I like to filet them and leave the bones in, typically I usually eat them myself and don't serve to others especially kids. I can see why they get a bad reputation due to the bones but it certainly is a quality eating fish.
In my opinion I like to filet them and leave the bones in, typically I usually eat them myself and don't serve to others especially kids. I can see why they get a bad reputation due to the bones but it certainly is a quality eating fish.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 4:00 pm to 225Tyga
it's not a pike, it's a chain pickeral...same fam, entirely different species.
and just so you know, that pick in the photo is a pretty fricking big one for that species...damn near maximum size.
pike get way, way larger than that.
and just so you know, that pick in the photo is a pretty fricking big one for that species...damn near maximum size.
pike get way, way larger than that.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 4:28 pm to Kyrie Eleison
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just so you know
you dont need to try and tell me shite. I know more than you.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 4:34 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Apparently they are delicious, but hard to get all the bones out.
They are very good, just have to cut the Y bones out
Posted on 4/14/25 at 4:36 pm to 225Tyga
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you dont need to try and tell me shite. I know more than you.
Not in this instance as that’s not a pike
Posted on 4/14/25 at 5:18 pm to Funky Tide 8
Tons of jackfish in Caddo Lake. Biggest I ever caught was about four pounds on a black and white tiny torpedo. Thought I'd hung a tarpon with all the jumping he was doing.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 5:24 pm to Funky Tide 8
They are voracious. We regularly find them on top of the water were one has engulfed another damn near the same size as itself.
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