Toothy Cousins, Possible Pike-erel? 7/13

[NorthJerzyG]

Hit the river again yesterday for a few hours. Took another 45min cruise up a new stretch. Even un-launched at one point to go around a full blockage across the river. Came up to another and decided to start fishing our way back. After the first twenty min I hooked up with a decent fish. Get em in the net and saw it was a fat pickerel. Cool!! Maybe 10 casts later I hooked up with a better fish! Fought for a min through some logs and debris and netted a nice 30" pike. Quick CPR and back he went. Picked up 2 more shorties and a 14" lmb the rest of the day. Didn't realize till I got home and looked at the pics that the pike had noticeable pattern in his colors. So, could it be? Is it possibly a.............. Pike-erel??????

[saxmatt]

Pure pike. A lot of juvenile pike like that and even some adults have barring. Usually the barring breaks up as they mature.

[Skunk City]

PR Pickerel is pretty cool man, I've yet to catch one myself. My buddy had one about 5 years ago when we were fishing live bait near Horseneck but that has been the only one I've seen in person.