What kind of fish is this

[Deansw]

Hey guys, I caught this today and I think it's a pike any suggestions I don't think it's a chain
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[gdn443]

Looks like a Pike to me. Nice.
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[Deansw]

That's what I thought, I'm just baffled right now, I grew up up north but I'm in South Carolina right now. It's to hot down here for this fish and they don't have it listed as in the waters. I think I'm going to have to call the DNR on this
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[albinotrout]

Yep it's a northern pike. A nice one too.[cool]
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[Paulypro]

looks like a chainy to me
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[Tarpon4me]

LOL, it's not a pike. I'm in SC as well, and have caught many of these acrobatic little buggers. That my friend is locally known as a jackfish. The proper name is a chainpickerel. I understand that it is related to pike in some fashion, but they don't get much bigger than a few pounds.

If that alarms you, wait until you catch a 4' long gar, or a 10 pound mudfish. (bowfin) Lots of teeth!
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[davetclown]

this fish has many names "depending on the state it is caught in'

in michigan they list them as northern pike, but many of the old timers here and many anglers across the detroit river from us call them chain pickeral as well.

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If I remember right, west verginia has a bass called a jack.[:p]

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American pickerel
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Redfin and grass pickerels[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esox_americanus_americanus.jpg"][/url]Redfin pickerel, E. americanus americanus[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esox_americanus_vermiculatus.jpg"][/url]Grass pickerel, Esox americanus vermiculatus[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_status"]Conservation status[/url]

[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Concern"]Least Concern[/url] ([url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List"]IUCN 3.1[/url])
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification"]Scientific classification[/url]Kingdom:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal"]Animalia[/url]Phylum:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate"]Chordata[/url]Class:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii"]Actinopterygii[/url]Order:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esociformes"]Esociformes[/url]Family:EsocidaeGenus:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox"]Esox[/url]Species:E. americanus[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature"]Binomial name[/url]Esox americanus
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Gmelin"]J. F. Gmelin[/url], 1789[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies"]Subspecies[/url]
Esox americanus americanus J. F. Gmelin, 1789
Esox americanus vermiculatus [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alexandre_Lesueur"]Lesueur[/url], 1846
The American pickerels are two [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies"]subspecies[/url] of Esox americanus, a [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species"]species[/url] of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater"]freshwater[/url] [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish"]fish[/url] in the pike [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(biology)"]family[/url] (family [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esocidae"]Esocidae[/url]) of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_(biology)"]order[/url] [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esociformes"]Esociformes[/url]: the redfin pickerel, E. americanus americanus [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmelin_(taxonomy)"]Gmelin[/url], 1789, and the grass pickerel, E. americanus vermiculatus [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesueur_(taxonomy)"]Lesueur[/url], 1846.
Both subspecies are native to [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America"]North America[/url]. They are not to be with their aggressive counterpart the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike"]Northern pike[/url]. The redfin pickerel's range extends from the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River"]Saint Lawrence[/url] drainage in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec"]Quebec[/url] down to the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico"]Gulf Coast[/url], from [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi"]Mississippi[/url] to [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida"]Florida[/url], while the grass pickerel's [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_(biology)"]range[/url] is further west, extending from the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Basin"]Great Lakes Basin[/url], from [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario"]Ontario[/url] to [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan"]Michigan[/url], down to the western Gulf Coast, from eastern [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas"]Texas[/url] to [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi"]Mississippi[/url].
The two subspecies are very similar, but the grass pickerel lacks the redfin's distinctive orange to red fin coloration, its fins having dark leading edges and amber to dusky coloration. In addition, the light areas between the dark bands are generally wider on the grass pickerel and narrower on the redfin pickerel. These pickerels grow to a maximum overall length of 40 cm (16 in) and a maximum weight of 2.25 pounds
The redfin and grass pickerels occur primarily in sluggish, vegetated waters of pools, [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake"]lakes[/url], and swamps, and are [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous"]carnivorous[/url], feeding on smaller fish. Larger fishes, such as the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_bass"]striped bass[/url] (Morone saxatilis), [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowfin"]bowfin[/url] (Amia calva), and gray [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakfish"]weakfish[/url] (Cynoscion regalis), in turn, prey on the pickerels when they venture into larger rivers or [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuaries"]estuaries[/url].
These fishes reproduce by scattering spherical, sticky [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_egg"]eggs[/url] in shallow, heavily vegetated waters. The eggs hatch in 11–15 days; the adults guard neither the eggs nor the young.
The E. americanus subspecies are not as highly prized as a [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_fish"]game fish[/url] as their larger cousins, the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike"]northern pike[/url] and [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskellunge"]muskellunge[/url], but they are caught by [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing"]anglers[/url]. [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McClane%27s_Standard_Fishing_Encyclopedia&action=edit&redlink=1"]McClane's Standard Fishing Encyclopedia[/url] describes [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_rod#Ultra-light_rods"]ultralight tackle[/url] as a sporty if overlooked method to catch these small but voracious pikes.
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesueur_(taxonomy)"]Lesueur[/url] originally classified the grass pickerel as E. vermiculatus, but it is now considered a subspecies of E. americanus.
E. americanus americanus is sometimes called the brook pickerel. There is no widely accepted [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language"]English[/url] common collective name for the two E. americanus subspecies; "American pickerel" is a translation of the systematic name and the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language"]French[/url] brochet d'Amérique.
References[[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_pickerel&action=edit&section=1"]edit[/url]]Wikimedia Commons has media related to [url "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/American_pickerel"]American pickerel[/url].[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies"]Wikispecies[/url] has information related to: [url "http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/American_pickerel"]American pickerel[/url]
[ul][li]Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2004). [url "http://fishbase.se/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2709"]Esox americanus americanus[/url] in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase"]FishBase[/url]. October 2004 version.[/li][li]Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2004). [url "http://fishbase.se/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2710"]Esox americanus vermiculatus[/url] in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase"]FishBase[/url]. October 2004 version.[/li][li][url "http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=162140"]"Esox americanus"[/url]. [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Taxonomic_Information_System"]Integrated Taxonomic Information System[/url]. Retrieved 5 December 2004. [/li][li]Weinmand, M.L.; Lauer, T.E., "Diet of grass pickerel Esox americanus vermiculatus in Indiana streams." Journal of Freshwater Ecology 22-3 (2007): 451-460[/li][li]Midkiff, E.S.; Tarter, D.C., "Diet and growth of larval and juvenile grass pickerel Esox americanus vermiculatus, and centralmudminnow, Umbra limi, in the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County West Virginia." [/li][/ul]
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[flygoddess]

[quote davetclown]this fish has many names "depending on the state it is caught in'

in michigan they list them as northern pike, but many of the old timers here and many anglers across the detroit river from us call them chain pickeral as well.

[url "http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNorthern_pike&ei=7lWbU6qKN8GZyAS5yoKYDA&usg=AFQjCNEsdKm98fH9uPdYmyK1wtX8dgRTNA&bvm=bv.68911936,d.aWw"][#1122cc]Northern pike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/#1122cc][/url]

If I remember right, west verginia has a bass called a jack.[:p][/quote]




Pretty sure they are indeed two different species and not a simple location name. We have Pike here (as well as Tiger Musky) but no Pickerel.
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[gdn443]

We have both in the northeast. Mouth on a Pike is much wider than a pickerel. Feels like your pulling in a train.
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[gdn443]

Chain pickerel
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Chain pickerel[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esox_niger_1.jpg"][/url][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification"]Scientific classification[/url]Kingdom:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal"]Animalia[/url]Phylum:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate"]Chordata[/url]Class:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii"]Actinopterygii[/url]Order:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esociformes"]Esociformes[/url]Family:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esocidae"]Esocidae[/url]Genus:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox"]Esox[/url]Species:E. niger[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature"]Binomial name[/url]Esox niger
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alexandre_Lesueur"]Lesueur[/url], 1818[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#cite_note-1"][1][/url][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym_(taxonomy)"]Synonyms[/url]
Esox reticulatus
The chain pickerel, Esox niger, is a [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species"]species[/url] of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_fish"]freshwater fish[/url] in the pike [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(biology)"]family[/url] (family [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esocidae"]Esocidae[/url]) of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_(biology)"]order[/url] [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esociformes"]Esociformes[/url].[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#cite_note-2"][2][/url] The chain pickerel and the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pickerel"]American pickerel[/url] belong to the Esox [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus"]genus[/url] of pike.[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#cite_note-range-3"][3][/url]
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[ul][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#Range"]1 Range[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#Other_names"]2 Other names[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#Physical_description"]3 Physical description[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#Diet"]4 Diet[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#Angling"]5 Angling[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#Edibility"]6 Edibility[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#References"]7 References[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#External_links"]8 External links[/url][/li][/ul]

Range[[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chain_pickerel&action=edit&section=1"]edit[/url]]
Its range is along the eastern coast of North America from southern [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"]Canada[/url] to Florida, and west to Texas. On the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States"]Atlantic Coast[/url], in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine"]Maine[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick"]New Brunswick[/url], and [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia"]Nova Scotia[/url], the chain pickerel extend as far as 46°N. The fish inhabits fresh water from the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Valley"]Mississippi Valley[/url] into southern [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin"]Wisconsin[/url]. It also is commonly found in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Michigan"]Lake Michigan[/url] and the lower portion of the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes"]Great Lakes[/url].[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pickerel#cite_note-range-3"][3][/url] They also range to the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Panhandle"]Florida Panhandle[/url].
Other names[[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chain_pickerel&action=edit&section=2"]edit[/url]]
It is also known as the "federation pike" or "federation pickerel". Pickerel is often a name given to [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye"]walleye[/url], although the true name belongs to the chain pickerel. Common nicknames in the southeastern United States are the "southern pike", "grass pike", "jack",
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[gdn443]

You be the judge, but it still looks like a Pike to me.


Northern pike
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This article is about the fish. For the Canadian band, see [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Northern_Pikes"]The Northern Pikes[/url].
Northern pike (Esox lucius)[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esox_lucius1.jpg"][/url]Northern pike[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_status"]Conservation status[/url]

[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Concern"]Least Concern[/url] ([url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List"]IUCN 3.1[/url])
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification"]Scientific classification[/url]Kingdom:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal"]Animalia[/url]Phylum:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate"]Chordata[/url]Class:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii"]Actinopterygii[/url]Superorder:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protacanthopterygii"]Protacanthopterygii[/url]Order:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esociformes"]Esociformes[/url]Family:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esocidae"]Esocidae[/url]Genus:[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox"]Esox[/url]Species:E. lucius[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature"]Binomial name[/url]Esox lucius
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus"]Linnaeus[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae"]1758[/url][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_map_of_Esox_lucius.png"][/url]
The northern pike (Esox lucius), known simply as a pike in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain"]Britain[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland"]Ireland[/url], [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"]Canada[/url], and most parts of the USA, also called jackfish or simply "northern" in the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Midwest"]Upper Midwest[/url] of the USA), is a [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species"]species[/url] of carnivorous [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish"]fish[/url] of the genus [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox"]Esox[/url] (the pikes). They are typical of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish_water"]brackish[/url] and [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_water"]fresh waters[/url] of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e. [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holarctic"]holarctic[/url] in distribution). Pike grow to a relatively large size; lengths of 150 cm (59 in) and weights of 25 kg (55 lb) are not rare. The average length is about 70–120 cm (28–47 in). The heaviest specimen known so far was caught in 1983 at an abandoned stone quarry in Germany, where the species is known as a Hecht. She (the majority of all pikes over 8 kg or 18 lb are females) was 147 cm (58 in) long and weighed 31 kg (68 lb). The longest pike ever recorded and confirmed was 152 cm (60 in) long and weighed 28 kg (62 lb). A pike of 60.5 in (154 cm) was caught and released in May 2004 in Apisko Lake, Manitoba. Historic reports of giant pike, caught in nets in [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland"]Ireland[/url] in the late 19th century, of 41–42 kg (90–93 lb) with a length of 173–175 cm (67–68 in), were researched by Fred Buller and published in The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike. Neither Britain nor Ireland has managed to produce much in the way of giant pike in the last 50 years, so substantial doubt exists surrounding those earlier claims. Currently, the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Game_Fish_Association"]IGFA[/url] recognizes a 25-kg pike caught by Lothar Louis in Lake of Grefeern, Germany, on October 16, 1986, as the all-tackle world-record northern pike.
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[ul][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike#Etymology"]1 Etymology[/url][/li][li][url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike#Description"]2 Description[/url] [/li][/ul]
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[trophytrout89]

I say chain pickeral. The give-away is the black line that comes down from the eye.
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[fredscott]

I would say chain pickerel. The top and bottom of the cheek and gill plate are covered with scales and I don't see any marking on its tail fins. A pike will have a fully scaled cheek, but only the top half of the gill plate cover will have scales the bottom of the gill cover will be smooth. Nice fish anyway.
On another note, that looks like a great place to find arrow heads. I am a amateur rock hound myself, but I think I see a piece that I would pick up to look at closely. In your photo straight above the pickerel's gill cover at the top of the photo, there is a different color stone in the shape of a spear point and possibly looks like it has been flint knapped.
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