i went out 2 weekends ago and couldn't find the bass anywhere but i did hook up with this big and new pb pick on a white bleedingbait spinner bait. he slammed it with one of those big sideswipe splashing hits like big musky and pike do. awesome to see it, he fought like all hell. anyway it was 24" long and weighed 4lbs on my spring, forgot the digital.

Toothy critters are great, right? So much fun. You cant really argue with any fish that will bite right now...

Wayne

Nice Pick. I love catching those things. You can almost always count on those to hit. I like to troll until I get to my spots at my local lake, almost always get a pickeral hit. Even the small ones are fun.  

awsome catch

I used to have lots of fun with pickeral when I lived in NY.

By the way they are delicous.  The meat is white and sweet.  Just be careful of the little bones.

Oh my God, I just realized I'm a straight man for the mudster.

Awsome pick! I havn't seen one that big in a while. My all time PB for pickerel is 25" that i cought with my dad years ago at Colliers Mills, but my PB for this summer was 21".

I love catching pickerel. Who ever says they dont fight hard must not have cought and nice sized ones. IMHO a 3lb pick will fight harder than a 3lb bass. I know some good brushpiles in this area that are loaded with pickerel. Its fun to paddle up to them and pull out some toothy critters.

Nice late season PB!

Matt

Nice Ryan Nice Nice Nice, thats all i got!  

Sweet fish! We call em' jack fish around here. The biggest I have seen boated was a little over 6 pounds that my friend caught at lake varner about 7 years ago. My friend Chad caught this one at lake walton last spring. We didn't weigh it, but I figure it may have gone close to 5 lbs. It had a big ol' blugill stuck in its throat when it hit his spinnerbait.

Here is the blugill in the throat... You can just make out the tail...

Here is the bluegill out of the throat...

Out of curiosity, what was the point of breaking the pike's jaw & teeth with the pliers and taking his dinner out of his throat (which certainly caused more internal damage)? I hope he lived to get another bluegill...

yeah i gotto agree i dont like teeth eitherbut id never grabb and hold up a fish with pliers especially one 5lbs.

He gutted it on the boat and ate it later... So unfortunately this pikeral never got to eat another blugill...

Yeah, but he had a nice meal and didn't release a wounded fish.

haha, I gotta agree....if the fish is already dead, not cruel to hold it with the pliers for the sake of a pic.

thats some pickeral. nice catch. definitly a fun catch at that size.

The picks are always a nice change

Nice fish dude. 8-)

Maybe a silly question, is a Pickeral the same as a Northern Pike? They kind of look similar.

they are basically the same just more of them and they are smaller

Nice picture.  I don't perfer to catch them but if that is all that is bitting then bring them on.

Nice fish, they are always fun to get into.

nice pic ,congrats