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Nice fish, where did you go?JG
Nice! If you were at Promised Land those are probably Spider’s jigs!
I heard if you use a filet knife and cut down the backbone and around the rib cage you can get the y-bones out. I plan to try it sometime and fry the pickerel and keep a piece of bread handy if I swallow a bone.
actually, Chain pickerel have a life span of from 8 to 10 years. A 25" chain pickerel probably doesn't have very long to live, not that that matters, they are prolific breeders and grow pretty fast, faster in lakes than rivers. What I hate is the bucket biologists that kill every pickerel they catch and leave them on the ice or toss them in the bushes.
Old girl... hopefully still swimming.