Yellow Perch?

NCHillbilly

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Canuck5

Food Plot advisor extraordinaire !
:) Where I grew up, Walleye were called Pickerel. Pike were Pike and put up much more of a fight and you needed to use a stainless steel leader to catch the big ones! More fun to catch, but the Walleye/Pickerel were much better eating. Pike have a lot of bones. Muskies were (stinky) monsters, but all are part of the same family and would wear you out.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/giant-musky-is-lake-st-clair-all-time-release-record/

These were caught, at the mouth of the river where I grew up. 40 miles north of Detroit.

https://www.northernontario.travel/fishing/one-musky-every-hour
 

Rabun

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Hey I know that guy. Wait, I am that guy ;)

Got him on lake burton. Hit a pointer trolled on a down rigger 30 feet deep over a 50' bottom. Was fishing for trout. Was delicious!
 

whchunter

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Have caught several on Sinclair. Dont know if they are native or stocked.
 

sparky

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They are family. My problem is hooking em before they swallow the hook ! I can load the boat with smaller ones using live worms. Minnows seem to get the larger ones. Would like to find a artificial something that would catch them consistently ! I got some small rubber prerigged minnow looking thangs I am going to try this afternoon. Any ideas ?
Ive caught em on mepps and panther martins from the bank on burton
 

NCHillbilly

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:) Where I grew up, Walleye were called Pickerel. Pike were Pike and put up much more of a fight and you needed to use a stainless steel leader to catch the big ones! More fun to catch, but the Walleye/Pickerel were much better eating. Pike have a lot of bones. Muskies were (stinky) monsters, but all are part of the same family and would wear you out.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/giant-musky-is-lake-st-clair-all-time-release-record/

These were caught, at the mouth of the river where I grew up. 40 miles north of Detroit.

https://www.northernontario.travel/fishing/one-musky-every-hour
We don't have northern pike here, so the walleyes are called pike. We do have muskies.
 

NCHillbilly

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Gar is better than you could imagine if you've never eaten it. It's like better alligator.
Yeah, I eat them pretty frequently, and like it. It's not like fish at all, really. I've always compared it to gator, also. Blackened gar especially is really tasty.
 
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