Hehe, I love fish with Teeth.

Good luck catching one for the Multi-species contest lol, but if you're trying, I'd head out easy!

TreeBAss,
now *that* is a good question.

I plan on heading out to the Sabine river system a try to add this species to my list.

And, for the record, they are a native fish in some of our waters.

Oh, also, they are edible, thus it is illegal to simply kill them and dump them in TX waters, not to mention the irony of killing a fish because you don't believe it to be as important as your favorite fish.

B.B,my dad caught one on a Torpedo in a barrow pit pond in eastern Lincoln Parish back in the mid 80's.Surprised us.We thought it was a bass,until we got it to the boat.Never caught another one though.

I caught one last winter at Lake O'the Pines on a white 1/16oz jig fishing for crappie in the creeks...



We did better on the crappie and sandies:

Nice fish. Cool to see some of the diversity of species we have her ein TX.

I think we'll see a bunch more once the multi species takes off

I will be targeting EVERYTHING

I'll be a shoe in for the shad, catch them all the time on flyrod. Nothing like ultra light fishing...

Hehe, at this rate I won't get to do much fishing for the multi-species tournament, I'll be too busy IDing everyone else's fish!

Just kidding Is'nt that was evenings are for??

...Evenings are for fishing, hehehe.

Make it easy on yourself Starless. When a pic is sent in, they have to tell you what it is in order to get credit for the catch. You just check it out to ensure they are right... Fuzzy or blurred pics should be canned immediatly... Just a thought.

Forgot about the night fishing thing, been bass fishing tooooooooo long.

Yeah, we will make sure everyone in the contest knows to send in clear pics, to take more then one pic, and too take pictures of any distinguishing features of unusual or hard to identify fish.

Have caught a bunch of them in Caddo on lazy Ike lures either in white or yellow with black dots.

what is caddo ??

Caddo is a lake on the TX/LA border.

Personally I would not bother to keep one unless it was about 18-20 inches or better. To fillet a pike, musky or pickerl correctly you take out 7 fillets. The Y bones as have been said are the issue.

I used to fish for them a lot when I lived in PA.

Bait, minnow, shiners, etc. They love big creek chubs, blue gill, etc. Basically they eat anything.

Lure of choice is a large gold inline spinner or buck tail. They are fun to catch and excellent eating! You just need some size to them to make it worth the effort.

I let most of em go unless we got into really big uns,