Anyone else out there keeping any Esox species?

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Just thought I'd ask out of boredom. I currently have 2 grass pickerel in my native 310 but I never seen anyone else keeping any esox.
 
Just thought I'd ask out of boredom. I currently have 2 grass pickerel in my native 310 but I never seen anyone else keeping any esox.


Esox species one of my favorite, but I think even the basement may be to warm to own a grass pikerel.
 
I had a tiger muskie a few years ago.It was one of those totally unexpected things that seemed to pop up at the shop that I just had to have.
Oddly enough I took a drive out Cabelas the other day and they had a bunch of them in their display tanks.
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The next grass pickerel(less than 6") I hook is going into my 90gal
 
I may attempt to keep a Grass Pickerel sometime this spring. Geneva has been cursed with no fish ever since the first time I went there though! I also thought about a Northern Pike of which I have easy access to an abundance of hammer-handles, but I don't need any dead Perch either!
 
Tryna acquire a pickerel, but no success - the only species I can get here are northerns :(
 
Got few central mudminnows, they surely behaved like esox species. Had a 7" mudminnow before but an ucler got him.
 
Got few central mudminnows, they surely behaved like esox species. Had a 7" mudminnow before but an ucler got him.

That's a huge Mudminnow! Any pics? I seined a 6"r last May but since then I haven't captured one over 4".
 
No pics unfortunately, but he's in freezer right now looking for a glass jar and alcohol to preserving him and a 15 years old blood parrot. Giant mudminnows are not that common and I've seen a 8" one personally but it was in someone's bait bucket. Giant ones are definitely 100% piscivorous. I've trying to seeking out larger specimens but no luck.
 
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