Midget Pike

[Denlon]

Originally Posted by Eskimo

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That's a great pickerel, especially given the intense fishing pressure that lake receives in the summer.

I wonder if they'll let me launch a kayak in that lake. (After the ice melts, of course.)

Here is something interesting. It's a Pennsylvania size vs. age chart for pickerel and pike, so you can estimate how old your catch is:

I don't know that I believe the chart. It seems to say that Chain Pickerel don't get any bigger than about 20 inches. I'm 71 years old, and I know that I've caught many pickerel over 20 inches...especially down in the south jersey pine barrens streams and cranbury bogs.

However, about 15 years ago my best was in Davidson's Mill Pond in South Brunswick which was right on the 30 inch mark. ( Yes-It was released.) I'm fairly certain it was a pickerel, since I don't think there are any Northerns in Davidson's Mill Pond.
Denny