Fish ID ???

[JW]

Chain pickerel. Not to common in Texas but they are here. I caught one on Lake Palestine 25 years ago.

That's it. Caddo is full of em. [emoji6]

[999]

Did you put him in an aquarium or what? Trying to figure out where you took the pics.

[stevieray54]

They like deep cool to cold water, very common in Minnesota, only problem with eating they they have a lot of fine hair bones. Watch your fingers hold them by their eye balls..Mouths like a gar

[JW]

They like deep cool to cold water, very common in Minnesota, only problem with eating they they have a lot of fine hair bones. Watch your fingers hold them by their eye balls..Mouths like a gar

You can catch em as far south as Village Creek in Hardin County where I was raised. The locals there call em Jack Fish.

[waterdog]

east texs. pickerel. eggs come in on wild ducks feet. got a few in my pond in cold spring

[Jspradley]

Don't bother eating it. Send it to me

[Drycreek3189]

You can catch em as far south as Village Creek in Hardin County where I was raised. The locals there call em Jack Fish.

All I called them until I was grown. We used to cut both ends out of a big coffee can, shine them in the shallow water in creeks at night, slip the can down over them, and catch them by hand. Then they wound up on a hook trying to catch a catfish. Pretty good op bait. Of course, that was in the old days, when we did a lot of questionable things.

[JW]

Chain pickerel are distributed along the Atlantic coast of North America from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia south to Florida. The species is found in the Mississippi River drainage from the Gulf Coast as far north as Illinois and Indiana, and may be found in Gulf drainages as far west as the Sabine and Red rivers in Texas.
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Fishing for chain pickerel is basically a winter-time activity in Texas. It begins with the first real cold front in the fall and continues until March or April when water temperatures warm. Like northern pike, chain pickerel are bony, but usually considered tasty. Although the national record is over nine pounds, the Texas state record is 4.75 pounds (23.75 inches).

[coachmas]

Caught a couple in lake Tyler one day. Coach

[AntlerCollector]

Did you put him in an aquarium or what? Trying to figure out where you took the pics.

Yes I put it in a 200 gallon aquarium

[smokin feathers]

I emfound them in ditches on woods rds n hardin co several times. Seen tons of them on caddo bistineau cross lake n saline n black lake n la.

[AntlerCollector]

I have a large fish trap that I only use to hold the catfish I catch until I'm done fishing and ready to fillet them. Well we were mowing the grass and put the trap in the pond just to get it out of the way. After we mowed and pulled the trap up this fish was in it. There was no bait in it and never has been.

[xman59]

My guess was Northern Pike, I will have to google Pickerel. I've only got maybe three perch out of here. Everything else has been stocked channel cats.


No chance of flooding in. Birds must have carried it. Surely this is not common for an East Texas pond? I'm in Hardin County.

i caught a very small one in the Jack Gore baygall unit a number of years ago,, saw a dead one floating in rayburn once also,, caddo lake has a bunch of them

[fishingsetx]

You can catch em as far south as Village Creek in Hardin County where I was raised. The locals there call em Jack Fish.

I emfound them in ditches on woods rds n hardin co several times. Seen tons of them on caddo bistineau cross lake n saline n black lake n la.

i caught a very small one in the Jack Gore baygall unit a number of years ago,, saw a dead one floating in rayburn once also,, caddo lake has a bunch of them

Its funny, all these hardin county catches. The park i was talking about was kunnuple park in silsbee.

[AntlerCollector]

Well now I guess Hardin County is known for black panthers and pickerel