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call me crazy but it looks more like a tiger musky than a pike/pick
there are a few different pickeral around grass picks chain picks and at least 2 or three more that i have heard of or read about i would say it is some type of pickeral just not sure which one
def. not a tiger, i have caught pike that have had a unique look to em... i have also seen blueish silver pike, anyone ever see one?
You mean like this?
yup, we call them great northerns around here.
I want a great northern for my wall, i have a buddy who caught one in canada that was probably 30 inches and was really blue, awesome looking fish, ill try and get the pic to post...P.S. - beautiful fish mxfisher656, my buddies looks a little more blue but thats what im talking about, i want one thats 40+inches and blue
How long was it?
They were doing those pike/musky hybrids here in Constantia before at the walleye hatchery, they called them norlunge or something like that. When they came back they looked kinda blue in the water. I remember as a kid trying to catch 1, buy they were too smart for the rapala. They got pretty big then, but I haven't seen one since. I think i'll ask the locals at the hatchery if they still do that stuff.cny
I have read that there is an extreemly small population of tigers that can reproduce, and they are not all sterile. anyone ever read or hear about this?
Pickeral will have a black bar under their eye (all essocid's have a bar when they are juvinile's, but pike and musky loose them). Adult grass pickerel max out at 14", redfin pickerel are not that common in NYS. They are here, but not very common (Mohawk and Hudson drainages). Your most likely to see chain's. That fish is a northern in my mind. The best way to tell the difference in essocid's is the scale patterns on the cheek and operculum. Musky = scales on upper half of cheek and operculum; Pike = cheek fully scaled, operculum top half scaled; Pickerel = cheek and operculum fully scaled