Best fight of the day

Wow, that's long and toothy. What did it measure at ? The pattern on the sides look like Pickerel, the size looks like Pike. Also it looks the wind was a lot calmer up your way than it was here.

4 hours ago, jbmaine said:

Wow, that's long and toothy. What did it measure at ? The pattern on the sides look like Pickerel, the size looks like Pike. Also it looks the wind was a lot calmer up your way than it was here.

Thought the same, but I was told Pike......first one I have seen out of Squam

I'm really sure that's a monster pickerel. Where's @everythingthatswims? 

 

We have no pickerel here, but I've caught enough pike to know that's not a pike. 

@Bluebasser86, thanks for the ID.

 

The elders around here were unsure given the size, but Pike would be more rare than a pickerel.........I would have measured it, but it was a mean SOB

I've caught some pickerel near that size in our reservoirs.

Oh, and congrats on your first wacky fish! Many more to

come  

 

And dude. With a handle like @NHBull, you should be 

thumb lipping those things, not using wussy grips.   

That’s a mighty big Pickerel! They get that size in the rivers here in my neck of the woods. He must of hit like a freight train! 

Its size alone would lead one to think it was a pike but, yeah, I think it's a really BIG chain pickerel.  I imagine it put up a good fight.

Chain pickerel or as we call them down here "jackfish" because they are always jacking up our jerk baits and crank baits. I was pre fishing a tournament on Lake Cypress either this week with a friend, and he caught one about that size (maybe slightly bigger).