What did you cook or eat today (January 2022)?

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Butternut squash with homemade croutons and a barbecue chicken wrap with homemade bourbon barbecue sauce.

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Morning Glory said:
I think its pike.
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Rocklobster said:
They call it Walleye in the US..part of the pike family..
Pickerel
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There needs to be a distinction here. Walleye may be called yellow pickerel in some places, but it is not the same as the pickerel species. The chain pickerel and brook pickerel have flat snouts like the northern pike and muskellunge. Walleye have blunt round snouts and that is how to identify them. The walleye body is less box-like, like the pickerel and pike fish are, and is part of a different family of fish than pickerel, pike and muskellunge.

So, being called yellow pickerel in parts of the US, does not make walleye a true pickerel, nor should they be confused with pike and muskellunge, given that pike, muskies and pickerels are all part of the same family of fish. Pike and muskies are bigger than the chain and brook pickerels. Walleye are a completely different type of fish, but have been called yellow pickerel and walleye pike.
 
A final note on walleye. They are part of the perch family, of which there are several species, fresh and salt water and some that live in both. Yellow perch, walleye and the sauger are the big game perch in the US. Sauger are often confused with walleye and as a result, the name sauger is not often applied.
 
flyinglentris said:
A final note on walleye. They are part of the perch family, of which there are several species, fresh and salt water and some that live in both. Yellow perch, walleye and the sauger are the big game perch in the US. Sauger are often confused with walleye and as a result, the name sauger is not often applied.
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I had a little family restaurant for 15 years on the shores of the Ottawa River. It was in a rural area with fishing resorts and cabin rentals close by..every year we would get tons of American fishermen/women up to fish the river because of it's fast water, rapids, and diverse fish population..They would talk of fishing walleye just outside my back door and I used to think that we don't have walleye..we have pickerel..maybe there were walleye in there..we just called them pickerel
 
Rocklobster said:
I had a little family restaurant for 15 years on the shores of the Ottawa River. It was in a rural area with fishing resorts and cabin rentals close by..every year we would get tons of American fishermen/women up to fish the river because of it's fast water, rapids, and diverse fish population..They would talk of fishing walleye just outside my back door and I used to think that we don't have walleye..we have pickerel..maybe there were walleye in there..we just called them pickerel
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Yep, that confusion still exists. Walleye in my opinion is the tastier fish, but in Canada it's Pickerel that is sold for the most part, or at least in Ontario.
 
flyinglentris said:
Yellow perch, walleye and the sauger are the big game perch in the US. Sauger are often confused with walleye and as a result, the name sauger is not often applied.
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I'd hardly call yellow oerch big, the biggest one I ever caught was probably 2 pounds. I think the record is just over 4 pounds. I've caught walleye that were over 5 pounds many times. I think the record size ever caught was just over 25 pounds.

Where do you fish for them and what were the biggest ones you've caught?
 
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