re: Caught a Chain Pickerel Yesterday

I wasn't fond of them as a kid because they would destroy my lures. I had just acquired a "bill dance spittin image" which was a big deal for me at the time. A few chain pickerel and the hard plastic looked like it had been hit with a wire wheel.

Don’t worry, some of us get the reference

“Jack fish”
Kincaid Lake had lots of them,I hated the bastards.
One of my favorite lures was chartreuse Balsa Bs,they cost $5.00.
Jack fish would bite holes all in them.
Hurt when I was only making $5.25/hr before taxes.
I’d knock them in the head and throw them overboard.

We will eat jackfish after all the dogs and cats are gone.

Caught a bunch on a navy base in fl years ago

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Two lakes in my area have lots of them and have saved many a February trip for me.

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AT
Are these what the same as what the locals call "Jack Fish"? Cocodrie Lake here in Rapides Parish is FULL of them.

if this thread is any indication of your general knowledge about things, you don't know shite from frick

hate frick your own face, jackass.

I caught a few jack pikes at Indian Creek about ten years ago. They loved my crappie jigs.

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I spent entirely too long throwing a ribbit frog at what I thought was a bass that kept blowing up on it but couldn't hook up. Finally got it on, about a 2 lb chain pickerel. I didn't even want that thing in my kayak with me

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The first one I ever saw I caught. I was about 10 years old and my dad and I were fishing West Point Lake on the Chattahoochee River in LaGrange, Georgia. It was about this time of year and we were simply fishing down a bank and catching largemouth bass with white spinner baits when a massive fish blew up on my bait and started stripping line. My dad and both just knew I had hooked a BIG largemouth. I ran under the boat and it looked like it was nearly 3 feet long! We were both convinced it was a MASSIVE LM LOL. I got on the right side of the boat with it and finally worked it along side and daddy netted it and it was indeed about 3 feet long and, according to a zebco deliar scale weighed almost 8 pounds. We had no idea what it was LOL...they are less common in North Georgia than they are in the piedmont and coastal plain. We thought it was a pike but later learned it was a pickerel. It was a HUGE one, especially for one coming from the Chattahoochee drainage. It would have probably been the lake record (there is no record of any kind that I can find for West Point) but we had no idea how close to the world record it was at the time. It was a big bastard. I seriously doubt the pocklet scale we used was close to accurate but it was still a big bastard....