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Location: Central Pennsylvania | Hi all, I’m curious as to what you guys would say this fish is. I’m not 100% on how to post a pic but I’ll see what I can do!
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Location: Central Pennsylvania | (This fish was not caught by me) fish was caught in Ohio in a river. |
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Location: US | It's a pike. Rounded fins |
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| Pike. |
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| Tigers have rounded fins, and the bottom half of this fish doesn't have a horizontal pattern like a pike. That being said, it looks more pike. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I have a 5X7 picture of a nice little 28.5 natural Tiger I caught back in 1983 in Wisconsin very beautiful photo point fins and all, on my last trip to Wisconsin I caught a Tiger around 40", we were quite excited and readied our cameras. Two years ago I caught two Muskies with the same guide, the first fish the guide took the fish out of the net and handed it to me and the second fish I reached in the net and grabbed by myself. This year the fish is in the net hanging over the side of the boat and the fish unhooked itself. Great!, we got the cameras ready and the guide asked me if he wanted me to get the fish out or should he do it. Between muskies and Northerns I've done this hundreds of times. I got it, went to grab the fish and there was netting between the fish and it's head, so I went to grab it by the other side and I noticed the net was bunched up behind it's head so I started to untangle it and it thrashed so I pulled my hands back and went to grab it and there was nothing there? It's gone my fish is gone? Then as I had by head in the I look thru the webbing my fish is setting on top of the water outside of the net my buddy tried to grab it by the tail but that's not going to happen. The guide asked me if I dropped it over the side of the net? NO I think it went thru the net? The guide starts to look at the net and sure enough there's a hole in the net. The poor guide could have crawled under the boat. Oh well I'll have to catch a bigger one! (maybe here in Colorado) Who needs another picture of a 40" muskie but a 40" PB Tiger oh well, the hunt is on! |
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| Simple rule of thumb
Most situations its a pike
In a tournament the judge needs to understand its a tiger. |
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| Muskie x chain pickerel hybrid.  |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | I believe IAJustin has nailed it! Assuming of course that there are pickerel in the lake where the fish was caught. Definitely a pike, but there are some other genes evident there too.
I posted a similar photo several years ago that was determined by scientists to be a pike x pickerel hybrid.
Are there muskies in that lake? It could also possibly be a backcross muskie x pike hybrid (second generation hybrid).
Edited by Larry Ramsell 11/17/2025 9:56 AM
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| IAJustin - 11/16/2025 10:20 PM
Muskie x chain pickerel hybrid. ;)
I had found a photo online where a chain pickerel had almost identical markings. But the fins were different. |
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Location: In the slop! | Well, it's a beauty of a fish whatever it is! |
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