Chain Pickerel

I wasn't aware that redfin were present in Michigan (not that it really means anything with all the bucket biologists out there).

I stand corrected, we have grass pickeral in michigan, which I think might be the fish in the picture. Redfins are an east coast fish. Doesn't help that most people, even biologist use the two names interchangably.

Bait.

"john c" said:
Swanezy,

Can we get a full-size – or, if necessary, a less-cropped – shot of that?

Click on the pic, John, and then click again once it opens in Photobucket…

"Mayhem" said:
I stand corrected, we have grass pickeral in michigan, which I think might be the fish in the picture. Redfins are an east coast fish. Doesn't help that most people, even biologist use the two names interchangably.

I gotta agree on the grass pickerel, not chain pickerel )though possible because of Pigeons the connection to the Great Lakes). Looks to be a very large specimen too. The, nearly verticle, dark stripe below the eye gives away pickerel every time.