my new chain pickerel! : )

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lpenn31;4042415; said:
im 90 percent positive its a pickerel. it was caught in a shallow canal in the pine barrens in southern New Jersey.
looks like a northern to me too. are you saying there are no northerns in those waters?
 
sbuse;4042597; said:
i think thats a pike...in the second pic you can see the spotting well...
yup, plus there is no sign of the vertical line under the eye that pickeral have...
 
Nice northern pike! Surprise! I'll be very impressed if you guys can house it. They look awesome with a lot of branchy driftwood and plants.
 
well it does have a line under its eye i will update with a new picture. i took those 20 minutes after i put him in the quarantine tank.
 
Love it. I caught one these guys in a minnow catcher. He was the size of a chapstick tube. Grew him up to 9". Thought he was a pike forever. I have been told it was a pickeral. Either way. I cancelled my cable. All I wanted to do was watch him eat. Bad ass. I have been searching for another one for a while now. Not always easy.
 
may look like a pike, but its 1000000% a chain, its from a small bog in fort dix nj, and ive been fishing there for a while and i was there whent his guy was caught and when he still had his colors hes a chain
 
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