I’m Ready For My Close-up

I’ve been fishing as much as possible this year, generally 4-5 times a week. I’ve been rotating between different lakes, rods, reels, lures and fish. I mostly target bass on my baitcaster but switch it up to spinning and fly-fishing on occasion for trout. I’ve done quite well so far this season, catching and photographing some beautiful little fish. I miss catching big fish, but there is really something special about these colourful little brook tout.

I’m amazed how different they look despite being the same species.

I also have been getting into some chain pickerel recently on small spinner biats. They are very similar to pike, but rarely get over 30 inches around here.

Chain pickerel

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July 17, 2009 by Clive Mathias

Filed Under: Chain Pickerel, Fishing, Photography, Shore Fishing, Trout
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  • avatar Woody
    2 years, 6 months ago #

    What’s this Pickerel word all about, don’t you call your Walleye Pickerel sometimes as well or am i just getting confused with something else?!

  • avatar Clive Mathias
    1 year, 4 months ago #

    A year late, but these chain pickerel are a relative of pike:

    The chain pickerel, Esox niger (syn. Esox reticulatus), is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes. The chain pickerel as well as the trout pickerel and the grass pickerel belong to the Esox genus of pikes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye

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