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Message Subject: Not all Esox get Big.
Larry Ramsell
Posted 1/8/2015 8:34 AM (#747201)
Subject: Not all Esox get Big.




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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 His new record superseded the previous seven-pound, four-ounce record set by Roy Molick Jr.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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14ledo81
Posted 1/8/2015 9:04 AM (#747210 - in reply to #747201)
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Location: Ashland WI
Cool.

Thanks for sharing.
ToddM
Posted 1/8/2015 9:28 AM (#747219 - in reply to #747201)
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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.
muskie! nut
Posted 1/8/2015 10:13 AM (#747228 - in reply to #747201)
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Location: Yahara River Chain
They must use Bone :Lake as brood stock, eh Larry?
Will Schultz
Posted 1/8/2015 11:18 AM (#747238 - in reply to #747201)
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI
That is BIG despite the title of this thread.
dfkiii
Posted 1/8/2015 12:32 PM (#747256 - in reply to #747201)
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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.
lennyg3
Posted 1/8/2015 2:04 PM (#747282 - in reply to #747201)
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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?

Edited by lennyg3 1/8/2015 2:15 PM
KenK
Posted 1/8/2015 2:16 PM (#747284 - in reply to #747201)
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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...
lennyg3
Posted 1/8/2015 2:36 PM (#747287 - in reply to #747284)
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Location: NE PA
KenK - 1/8/2015 3:16 PM

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...

Interesting read. Thank you!
MD75
Posted 1/8/2015 3:17 PM (#747300 - in reply to #747201)
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Location: Sycamore, IL
Awesome fish...thanks for sharing!
zombietrolling
Posted 1/8/2015 4:23 PM (#747314 - in reply to #747201)
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Posts: 246


Hog of a pickerel. Love catching them on light tackle since they never stop fighting or trying to bite you when unhooking.
Larry Ramsell
Posted 1/9/2015 8:54 AM (#747390 - in reply to #747201)
Subject: Re: Not all Esox get Big.




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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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woodieb8
Posted 1/9/2015 8:00 PM (#747533 - in reply to #747201)
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sweet fish. ya gotta love all the different markings
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