Debate on another site on what this is,
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:57 am
Michigan Muskie Alliance
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Debate on another site on what this is,
http://michiganmuskiealliance.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5611
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:17 am
Light spots on dark — gotta be a pike.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:35 am
I say pike also, even though the coloring is a little different.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:04 am
Posted: 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
How-to identify a chain pickerel:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4843302_identif ... kerel.html
Posted: 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.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:39 am
Maybe not!Will Schultz wrote:The size also makes it a pike. 37" would have put it over 10# making it a world record chain pickerel.
14.8#
http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/stat ... ckerel.htm
He looks like John Castle...
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:45 am
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:48 am
So, what do they have to say about the muskie record? 
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:50 am
I was actually surprised they didn't have the chain pickerel record at 20#.hemichemi wrote:So, what do they have to say about the muskie record?
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:24 am
Pretty northern.
Posted: 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.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:53 pm
Its a Pike/Burbot mix. Those crazy pike will screw anything!
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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.
That is actually sad and makes you think how many idiots may mistake a musky for a pike and keep it without ever knowing.