Chain Pickerel

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the pickerel is by far one of my favorite fish now, they will eat out of my hand..... its pretty awesome, and you can pet the big one.....
 
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Miguel;1056988; said:
ok. thank you. so what are the difs between the Muskellunge, the N Pike and ths Chain Pickerel? which one is bigger? is the N pike the Esox Lucius we have in Europe ?
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well first muskellunge are the biggest reaching 5-6 feet in the wild eazy the world record for a muskie cought on a line and reel was a little less then 70 pounds northern pike are next reaching 4-5 feet when in cool waater and will get aroung 40-50 pounds in the wild chain pickerel get between 2-3 feet and around 15-20 pounds
next muskie can eazily be told apart from pike by there color muskellunge have a light color as a base with dark spots and some stripes northern pike have a dark base with light colored spots tiger muskie are a hybrid between northern pike and muskellunge and look like muskie but have more rounded fins and have many stripes going down there body
 
not really sure where you got ur info KillerFish... the largest grass pickerel ever caught back in 1961 was 9lbs 6ounces.... longest one ever seen was 26"s
 
there are tons of chain pickerel in MA, when I go fishing my catch for the day is like 5 pickerel and 2 bass, most of them are around the 20" mark but i did catch a 30" one two years ago
 
I agree chain pickerel dont get nearly as big as northern pike and musky.
 
yes pickerel dont get as big as pike and musky
but they still get huge, there were a few 30-40 inchers coming out by my lakehouse, me and my friends catching most of them, pickerel are much better suited for a big tank at home
 
AndrewMack;1062916; said:
not really sure where you got ur info KillerFish... the largest grass pickerel ever caught back in 1961 was 9lbs 6ounces.... longest one ever seen was 26"s
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whoops the wight is wrong your right thats the correct record for wld caught chain pikerel the length is correct how ever they can get around 30'' not 36''-3' sorry ment to say they get between 24''-30''

as for the northern pike they get more like 35-45 pounds in the U.S there are however many reports of much larger ones caught in europe due to the colder water which is preffered by the northern pike one weighing 90 pounds 8 ounces was caught in loch deigh, Ireland in 1862 however this report was never confurmed so arguibly the norther pike is the largst actually but given the average size of these fish muskie would be the largest
 
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