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My fish including new pickerel!!!!

Started by Guest_chad55_* , Nov 02 2006 06:43 PM

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#1 Guest_chad55_*

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Posted 02 November 2006 - 06:43 PM

Here are the pics of all my natives that I have in a tank as of now. Thank you Matt the pickerel is awsome. He has eaten like 3 or 4 rosies now!
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Bad pic but the lighting on it is really cool!
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Measurements are Bass-3.5" Bowfin-7" Pickerel-5-6" (bass and bowfin are exact as of yesterday)

Chad
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#2 Guest_wolfie8000_*

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Posted 02 November 2006 - 09:14 PM

Great looking fish. Really like the pickerel. I would like to see some full tank shots if you can take any.

Wolfie

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#3 Guest_chad55_*

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Posted 02 November 2006 - 10:42 PM

Thank you very much! I can try and take some full tank shots probably wont come out though cuz the flash and it sucks without. But my 55 is not lookin so hot right now because I had to catch my 12" marbled cat outta it last night and replace him with the bass and bowfin. Needless to say the cat wrecked that tank! No more trops for me....atleast for a while. Oh yea and I didn't have a net for the cat either!

Chad

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#4 Guest_bearskookums_*

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Posted 03 November 2006 - 08:12 PM

Hey Chad congrats on the new Pickerel! he(or she?) looks FAT! Does you bass eat pellets etc?

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#5 Guest_chad55_*

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Posted 04 November 2006 - 04:15 PM

Well I have no idea how to tell if it is a male or female :oops:

. Hahaha. The bass used to eat pellets until I started to spoil him and pump him up with a bunch of shrimp and blood worms. Now he only eats live and frozen that I know if. He will grab the pellets but spits them back out.

Chad

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#6 Guest_bearskookums_*

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Posted 04 November 2006 - 04:36 PM

Man my only Longear sunfish is not eating pellets at all!...although he will come and take food off my hand...funny thing...he doesnt like the taste of pellets...even when I soak them in water...thinking it was because it was too hard etc...I usually catch grasshoppers and crickets for him in the summer...one thing I know he likes is egg white! not yolk but the white!...so I just boil a hard boil egg and he pulverizes the egg in a sec....

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#7 Guest_Histrix_*

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Posted 04 November 2006 - 04:44 PM

Very nice pickerel -- keep us posted on how he's doing

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#8 Guest_chad55_*

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Posted 04 November 2006 - 04:55 PM

I should have a longear here anytime I want to go pick it up or have room for it. He eats all sorts of pellets too. It is so conviniant(sp?) when they eat pellets. Longears are really nice looking fish. How about some pics of your longear. Oh and the pickerel has eaten about a dozen rosies since Wednesday!

Chad

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#9 Guest_nativecajun_*

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Posted 11 December 2006 - 10:02 AM

I WANT ONE !!! Where did you find that pickerel. I am heading to Louisiana from here near Chattanooga Tennessee and am planning on stopping where ever it takes to catch me one of these Jewels. Any info from anyone would help. Not just names of bodies of water either because I am new to this collecting thing and I know no names of bodies of water or creeks or rivers except maybe the Mississippi. So directions and names of towns would help. I so much want one of the red fin variaties. But I will settle for any subspecies. I am looking forward very much to making stops in Mississippi all along the way. Is a fishing liscense required just to collect one specimen in a bucket.

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#10 Guest_dsmith73_*

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Posted 11 December 2006 - 10:12 AM

I WANT ONE !!! Where did you find that pickerel. I am heading to Louisiana from here near Chattanooga Tennessee and am planning on stopping where ever it takes to catch me one of these Jewels. Any info from anyone would help. Not just names of bodies of water either because I am new to this collecting thing and I know no names of bodies of water or creeks or rivers except maybe the Mississippi. So directions and names of towns would help. I so much want one of the red fin variaties. But I will settle for any subspecies. I am looking forward very much to making stops in Mississippi all along the way. Is a fishing liscense required just to collect one specimen in a bucket.

A fishing license is required in most states if you are going to be doing any sampling. You need to check the state's guidelines to know exactly what can and can't be done and what equipment you can use. You should also know that in several statem SC included, pickerel are considered game fish and it is illegal to take one except by hook and line.

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#11 Guest_julnj2_*

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Posted 11 December 2006 - 02:02 PM

Very nice fish

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#12 Guest_chad55_*

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Posted 11 December 2006 - 06:44 PM

I actually had a redfin. I made a dumb mistake and ended up killing him! To tell you the truth though redfins and grass pickerel look almost the same. My grass has about the same amount of red as my redfin did. Although my redfin never really got to settle down in the tank....

Chad