First pickerel on the fly (walleye for youse 'mericuns)

chain pickerel are frequently called "jack" in eastern nc...

George Adams wrote:

From: rw


Pickerel are a southern fish. They don't range into Canada. Therefore,
the Canuckistanis have no name for them.


I'm pretty sure someone's going to call me on this.) :-)


Consider youself called. According to A.J. McClane's Fishermen's Encyclopedia,
the Chain Pickerel is found from Eastern Canada through the Lake Ontario
drainage sothward, east of the Appalachians to Florida, and also in the
Mississipi Valley, as far south as Texas.

IIRC, in Canuckistan they are sometimes called "jacks".