Freshwater Wahoo Report and Pix

[MAKO19]

Good stuff Josh. Must of felt good to bend the rod over. I have been lovin' these warmer temps we are getting up here lately. It has been a long wait that's for sure.

[Catcher's Mitt]

looks like a chain pickeral. They don't get over about 3 pounds. in north Louisiana we called them Jackfish. in south Louisiana they call them Pike. My grandmother, Nanny, would rather catch one of those than a bass. She was all about "playing" them. She was quite a character, when you would be in the boat fishing out in front of the camp, or coming back in, when she saw you, she would holler, SHIP AHOY. COT A GIIR?

sorry didn't mean to hijack your thread talking about my Grandmother. but it sure was nice thinking about her.

[Captain Fred Archer]

Zar,

Ah, the mighty pickerel! Caught lots of them in my younger years back in Jersey. The Pine Barrens down south were loaded with them. Caught my biggest of the ones down there on the Mullica River. My biggest ever came from Greenwood Lake up north. That lake had some real gators in it.

They do get pretty big. If I remember right, the world record is over nine pounds and we regularly caught some well over five pounds when we were bass fishing.

They're bony as hell, but an old guy once showed me how to prepare and cook them. You fillet them, then lay the skin side down and cut up and down and across the fillets down to the skin with about 3/4" between cuts. Then slice off the skin and you have a collection of meat with the fine bones still in it. The secret was to deep fry the pieces in hot peanut oil until done. The oil actually melts the bones and they are gone. They are very good tasting, too!

[Fighting Irish45]

Sweet Josh nice pics, I'm thinking about hitting up some bridges soon for some tog maybe even a Susquehanna flats trip for some catch and release