Light spots on dark — gotta be a pike.

my vote is for chain pickeral

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

Better get his application to IGFA then…

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"hemichemi" said:
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#.
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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.

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.

Definately a unique and very pretty pike.

Joe, if you need pics from our trips let me know, I can burn a CD/DVD. This was a beauty…

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Here was another great looking pike from the same lake with distinctly different coloration.

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Man I have to get back to CAN for pike…

A lot of the pikes in Canada have some great colors. Noticed last year on Eagle a lot of the pikes we caught, some of the larger ones had some beautiful colors like the first one chad posted but brighter whites.

"hemichemi" said:
I'm 50% French-Canadian, eh? 2nd generation! D'accord? )

It all makes sense now…