Pickerel have some crazy teeth. I’d recommend buying a set of grippers if you know they’re in the waters.
Pickerel have some crazy teeth. I’d recommend buying a set of grippers if you know they’re in the waters.
Posted by ReallyNotBobby
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billy_mays_hereeee on
If you can’t lip a toothy bass you’ve got soft hands brother
TwoToadsKick on
Grope their gills
2poxxer on
I been on a spoon and spinner kick and first LMB of good size with a treble hook in its mouth and thrashing around convinced me grippers were gonna be a requirement. Best 5 bucks Ive spent.
itsyaboooooiiiii on
I’m blood brothers with a few small pickerel around me. Had to stick my thumb in their mouths to keep them open enough to unhook em. That’s why now I only really throw lures too big for the small pickerel to get
ParticularDream9483 on
i’ve yet to catch one myself but i once took some friends fishing with me and handled one. gave one of my friends a rod w a zebco33 on it and a ribbontail, after like 10 mins he reeled in a scary looking pickerel about a foot and a half long. obviously i wasn’t going to make my first timer homie handle the toothy missile creature so i picked it up w 2 hands along its body, got the hook out and let the angry torpedo go.
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If you can’t lip a toothy bass you’ve got soft hands brother
Grope their gills
I been on a spoon and spinner kick and first LMB of good size with a treble hook in its mouth and thrashing around convinced me grippers were gonna be a requirement. Best 5 bucks Ive spent.
I’m blood brothers with a few small pickerel around me. Had to stick my thumb in their mouths to keep them open enough to unhook em. That’s why now I only really throw lures too big for the small pickerel to get
i’ve yet to catch one myself but i once took some friends fishing with me and handled one. gave one of my friends a rod w a zebco33 on it and a ribbontail, after like 10 mins he reeled in a scary looking pickerel about a foot and a half long. obviously i wasn’t going to make my first timer homie handle the toothy missile creature so i picked it up w 2 hands along its body, got the hook out and let the angry torpedo go.
https://preview.redd.it/wrpelv8ntwyf1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=669a6e7a99acf496c13e07a9ed3c98f61348f6c7
I was attacked by one once.
They’re actually fairly easy to handle by splitting pointer and second fingers into the bottom of where the gill slits begin
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Just lip it like a man.
Similar to walleye, right? I land those by hand all of the time. No net, no grippers.
Fuckin ditch pickle, we goota kill them where im from. They’vekilled all the trout. Good fight though.