Debate on another site on what this is,

Bomba · Post by **Bomba** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:57 am

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum ... p?t=332399

hemichemi · Post by **hemichemi** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:17 am

Light spots on dark — gotta be a pike.

Bomba · Post by **Bomba** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:35 am

I say pike also, even though the coloring is a little different.

MuskyDan · Post by **MuskyDan** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:04 am

my vote is for chain pickeral

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... s%3Disch:1

hemichemi · Post by **hemichemi** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:24 am

Don't chain pickerel have a dark line under their eye?

How-to identify a chain pickerel:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4843302_identif ... kerel.html

Post by **Will Schultz** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:35 am

The size also makes it a pike. 37" would have put it over 10# making it a world record chain pickerel.

hemichemi · Post by **hemichemi** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:39 am

Will Schultz wrote:The size also makes it a pike. 37" would have put it over 10# making it a world record chain pickerel.

Maybe not!
14.8#
http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/stat ... ckerel.htm

He looks like John Castle...

Post by **Will Schultz** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:45 am

Better get his application to IGFA then...

http://www.igfa.org/records/Fish-Record ... ain&LC=ATR

hemichemi · Post by **hemichemi** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:48 am

So, what do they have to say about the muskie record?

Post by **Will Schultz** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:50 am

hemichemi wrote:So, what do they have to say about the muskie record?

I was actually surprised they didn't have the chain pickerel record at 20#.

Larry Porter · Post by **Larry Porter** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:24 am

Pretty northern.

Duke · Post by **Duke** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:30 am

Always funny to see how little the general public on M-S.com knows... that is a really cool northern. Actually kinda resembles the Amur pike x northern pike hybrid that Pennsylvania toyed with back in the 70's- that fish was awesome- like a horizontal tiger. But I'm guessing this Tawas fellow has no Eurasian Amur pike in his family tree! Then again we did have a Wolverine for a couple years. Amur pike beautiful in their own right though- like the spottiest, awesomest Great Lakes musky you ever saw.

kid coulson · Post by **kid coulson** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:53 pm

Its a Pike/Burbot mix. Those crazy pike will screw anything!

pikerule2 · Post by **pikerule2** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:17 pm

Definitely a beautiful pike, have caught a few with the more twisted, elongated worm shaped markings instead of bean shaped, got a dandy in Canada with Chad that I had a nice pic of before the last PC crash.

swanezy · Post by **swanezy** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:29 pm

lol im with Duke, you never really realize how uninformed people are who actually fish, when it comes to identifying other species.

That is actually sad and makes you think how many idiots may mistake a musky for a pike and keep it without ever knowing.