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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Lee Haile III of Towson was catching and releasing chain pickerel with his son and a friend in an unnamed Eastern Shore pond near Salisbury when the line came tight to what turned out to be an eight pounder. "I've been fishing for pickerel for over 38 years, and I just knew this one was exceptional," he said. According to Haile, the fish made a couple of strong 30-foot dashes, circled the boat twice, dodged the net, dove under the boat, and finally came onboard. "When I saw the fish in the boat, I said that we needed to go in because this could be a record fish." Haile weighed the fish at Clyde's Sport Shop in Halethorpe and later obtained a certified weight at Conrad's Crabs & Seafood Market in Parkville. Lockwood met Haile later near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to confirm the species. His new record superseded the previous seven-pound, four-ounce record set by Roy Molick Jr. in 1976. Haile used a light spinning tackle with eight-pound braided running line, a 20-pound monofilament leader, and a minnow/jig combo lure. The current world record is nine pounds, four ounces caught in 1961 in Georgia. - See more and photo at: http://www.thefishingwire.com/story/336348#sthash.2OpCXUQo.dpuf
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Location: Ashland WI | Cool.
Thanks for sharing. |
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Location: oswego, il | I can see a new tv show called pickerel hunter on wfn soon! Interesting how these fish don't get very big yet their cousins do. I wonder if they cross breed and what those fish may look like. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | They must use Bone :Lake as brood stock, eh Larry? |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | That is BIG despite the title of this thread. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
Beauty of a fish.
Cue the chain pickerel zealots assassinating this guy online for not releasing the fish. |
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Location: NE PA | Larry,
Have pickerel ever been cross bred with Muskies or pike?
Edit* I see that there are quite a few pike/pickerel hybrids caught every year, but what about skis?
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | I just googled esox cross breeding and came up with this by Dr. Crossman. Still reading but it looks like there are a few possibilities for esox hybrids.
http://www.fishfactor.tv/documents/Pike-Brochet/Crossman%20and%20Bu... |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | Awesome fish...thanks for sharing! |
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| Hog of a pickerel. Love catching them on light tackle since they never stop fighting or trying to bite you when unhooking. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | lennyg3: Pennsylvania's DNR did every possible Esox cross possible many years ago. I wish I had all the pictures to put on here. Interesting looking fish. Most crosses didn't survive or survival was very, very low. Some weird ones took such as the Amur Pike x Muskie cross and Amur Pike x Norhtern Pike and were stocked in Pa. for awhile. The current WR Amur Pike is from there. Here is a great photo of an Amur Pike by Northern Pike cross that could have established a WR.
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| sweet fish. ya gotta love all the different markings |
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