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FishingNoob said:
Whats a pickerel, it looks like a tiny pike.
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yup, a tiny pike, only Canadians call walleye pickerel, pickerel is a type of pike, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox_americanus and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox_niger

i think we have 2/3 in ontario. they are much smaller and less aggressive.
 
Klik said:
yup, a tiny pike, only Canadians call walleye pickerel, pickerel is a type of pike, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox_americanus and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox_niger

i think we have 2/3 in ontario. they are much smaller and less aggressive.
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Ahhh ok... I though we called walleye pickeral with an "al" not an "el"... :D
 
JMatt1983 said:
pickerel are walleye in canada which are just a perch with bigger teeth, in no way related to pike
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NO. A Pickerel is a Pickerel. A Walleye is a Walleye. 2 completely different fish. I'm repeating myself as this conversation has already been done a number of times, but what is commonly known as a Pickerel in Ont. is actually a Walleye, larger cousin of the Perch. And toothier. Pickerel are a completely different fish, a small cousin of Pike. There are Grass Pickerel, Chain Pickerel and Redfin Pickerel. Pickerel are mostly native from Florida up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick and west as far as Lake Michigan, but mostly south of Ontario although there are a few pockets of them along the St Lawerence and eastern Lake Ontario.
I am 50 so I grew up calling Walleye Pickerel, many still do. And I know restaurants sell Pickerel diners (which is Walleye.)

Still have any doubts? Read your fishing regulations and tell me the open season and catch limit for Pickerel. Then read the regs you abide by hopefully and you will find they are for a fish called Walleye.
I have spent a lot of time out east and have caught Pickerel, they don't look like anything I have seen come out of Lake Erie. I actually think the misnomer, calling a Walleye a Pickerel is an insult to a real Pickerel, because a real Pickerel actually puts up a fight.

Alfie.
 
Aaron, you best start hitting the books! You have a 100' x 50' ecosystem to tend to. :)

*Yellow Pickerel* is a walleye,but people keep referring to them as simply pickerel for some reason. It is true, the real pickerel is a fun-sized pike. I heard they are tasty too...
 
not sure why there is any confusion, i did clearly stated what a pickerel was with links. as we call salmon, chinook and coho, kings, silver salmon, spring salmon, chinnies, so on, the name pickerel has stuck to a fish which is known as a walleye. in USA they call it walleye and only north america has them, only in canada the more old school call it pickerel. there is a much bigger badass one on steroids called zander which we don't have. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zander..

Not really sure what you meant by pickerel will destroy bass fishery, as in you mean walleye or the toothy cousin to pike? the cousin to pike do compete for the same type of structure, but they are tiny like baby pike so they wont grow to huge sizes and eat the larger bass, but they will keep the pond clear of gold fish and then you can add minnows. I still vote for you getting one baby musky and see what happens.
 
Alfiegee said:
NO. A Pickerel is a Pickerel. A Walleye is a Walleye. 2 completely different fish. I'm repeating myself as this conversation has already been done a number of times, but what is commonly known as a Pickerel in Ont. is actually a Walleye, larger cousin of the Perch. And toothier. Pickerel are a completely different fish, a small cousin of Pike. There are Grass Pickerel, Chain Pickerel and Redfin Pickerel. Pickerel are mostly native from Florida up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick and west as far as Lake Michigan, but mostly south of Ontario although there are a few pockets of them along the St Lawerence and eastern Lake Ontario.
I am 50 so I grew up calling Walleye Pickerel, many still do. And I know restaurants sell Pickerel diners (which is Walleye.)
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I think that cleared it up once and for all. Thanks. You sure do know a lot about pickerels.

Alfiegee said:
Still have any doubts? Read your fishing regulations and tell me the open season and catch limit for Pickerel. Then read the regs you abide by hopefully and you will find they are for a fish called Walleye.
I have spent a lot of time out east and have caught Pickerel, they don't look like anything I have seen come out of Lake Erie. I actually think the misnomer, calling a Walleye a Pickerel is an insult to a real Pickerel, because a real Pickerel actually puts up a fight.

Alfie.
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I think people wrongly call walleye pickerel because it is what they grew up calling them. I also think that people in Ontario refer to walleye as pickerel because the real pickerel inhabits a small very area in Ontario and that most people know that a walleye is wrongly called a pickerel in Ontario...

Never caught a (real) pickerel before. Look pretty cool though!
 
I knew about sauger and saugeye but I never knew any of this...pretty cool! I always thought it was just an ottawa valley nickname for eyes but all of this makes perfect sense haha. Not going to parade this knowledge around the valley when I go tho...already lost one tooth and I wanna keep the rest lol
 
Alfiegee said:
NO. A Pickerel is a Pickerel. A Walleye is a Walleye. 2 completely different fish. I'm repeating myself as this conversation has already been done a number of times, but what is commonly known as a Pickerel in Ont. is actually a Walleye, larger cousin of the Perch. And toothier. Pickerel are a completely different fish, a small cousin of Pike. There are Grass Pickerel, Chain Pickerel and Redfin Pickerel. Pickerel are mostly native from Florida up the eastern seaboard to New Brunswick and west as far as Lake Michigan, but mostly south of Ontario although there are a few pockets of them along the St Lawerence and eastern Lake Ontario.
I am 50 so I grew up calling Walleye Pickerel, many still do. And I know restaurants sell Pickerel diners (which is Walleye.)

Still have any doubts? Read your fishing regulations and tell me the open season and catch limit for Pickerel. Then read the regs you abide by hopefully and you will find they are for a fish called Walleye.
I have spent a lot of time out east and have caught Pickerel, they don't look like anything I have seen come out of Lake Erie. I actually think the misnomer, calling a Walleye a Pickerel is an insult to a real Pickerel, because a real Pickerel actually puts up a fight.

Alfie.
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did you read my ENTIRE post? i said pickerel are walleye in CANADA, where pickerel is the common name for them.
 
JMatt1983 said:
this MUST be fixed, to quinte with you. used to catch hundreds a summer when i lived in sarnia, was pretty common to limit out within 40 minutes on a white mr twister
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I've caught walleye... if that's what you mean. I haven't caught the tiny pike pickerel...
 
how about some big browns? if you know where I can get 'em. might consider putting it in your pond. i love them browns.
 
The pond is warm in the summer but won't trout be competing for the same food sources as the bass and unstablize the pond
 

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