New guy here...210 tank
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Hey Gunther,i would'nt go with the L.Mouth Bass,i cant even put two together in anything under a 300........so territorial,but i would go back to the body of water you got the pickerel from and get like 5 of em as babies..........now thats a predator tank dude!!!!!!!!
sorry gunter as a french river fisherman all the time . that is no pickerel . It is for sure a northen pike that is all i fish for nothern pike and muskie . i would bet on it being a northen (and i dont bet)
Hey Brett.......sorry but 7 years later it is still 1000% a CHAIN PICKEREL, not a Northern Pike. In many parts of the country the term "Pike" is used to loosely describe many of the esox family of fish but it is incorrect. Thanks for the compliment though haha.
I see the reason your not a gambling man. Local knowledge isnt always good knowledge. Ive known 30 year fisherman who insisted the Atlantic salmon they were catching were brook trout. On the other hand, photos can make identifying features hard to see, making positive ID difficult. Notherns have thin, horizontal cream colored bars across their body with dull, reddish brown fins. Chain pickerel have larger irregular shaped light green spots. Chain pickerel also have a vertical black stripe under the eye, northerns do not
Local knowledge isnt always good knowledge. Ive known 30 year fisherman who insisted the Atlantic salmon they were catching were brook trout. On the other hand, photos can make identifying features hard to see, making positive ID difficult. Notherns have thin, horizontal cream colored bars across their body with dull, reddish brown fins. Chain pickerel have larger irregular shaped light green spots. Chain pickerel also have a vertical black stripe under the eye, northerns do not
Lol, definitely some good points we have the same problem here with people misidentifying Rockbass for Warmouth and Channel catfish for Blue catfish.
