Pickerel in south west mo

[Gavin]

You will want some needle nose pliers. They don’t shred line like a 36” Northern or a Musky, but can mess with your digits. Pretty common in the 16-22” hammer handle range. Shallow Bluegill cranks, jerkbaits, and in-line spinners will take them.

 

[Flysmallie]

Those backwaters are the spot. And they love inline spinners. 

I’ve often wondered if there are pickerel in Pickerel Creek. 

[Gavin]

Big Roostertails 1/8oz, do not fish slow. Figure they would eat the small plopper, never much luck with a walker on chains.

[Johnsfolly]

Caught lots of them on inline spinners. The 11 pt guys were caught on maribou jigs and floating rapalas. 

I would figure that clousers or articulated atreamers would work well if you were fly fishing. 

The grass pickerel that I caught in Crane hit white roostertails and 1/64 oz white maribou jigs.

[moguy1973]

Definitely have caught them on the Jacks Fork and have seen them on the Current as said.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Has anybody here looked at a map? 

The man asked about SWMO and every answer but two was for SEMO. 

Good answer Ronnie and Dale.

[tjm]

When I fly fished for chain pickerel in the north east a sparsely dressed Mikey Finn was as good as any, big and striped fast right at the weed line. Black Nose Dace and Grey Ghost worked, with spinning tackle the blue/sliver Finnish Minnow and Johnson Silver Minnow were my favorites; but any lure that resembles a fleeing or injured bait fish will take chain pickerel, ime.

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chain-pickerel

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Distribution in Missouri

Limited to streams and some lakes of the southeastern Ozarks.

 

[Quillback]

8 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

 

I’ve often wondered if there are pickerel in Pickerel Creek. 

I have thought about that myself, I have only seen it while whizzing by on the interstate, doesn't look like it holds much water.  

[Quillback]

Did a search, came up with this from Wikpedia:

Pickerel Creek has the name of the local Pickerel family.

[tjm]

So there are probably lots of Pickerels in that town, but maybe not chain pickerels; I had thought that was a family name.

13 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Pickerel Creek has the name of the local Pickerel family.