Bear Creek Pickerel

Type: Tidal
Region: Central
Location: Bear Creek

While fishing from my pier Tuesday 9/9 after work as I usually do I caught an unlikely visitor to Bear Creek. A 3.5 foot pike about 4 lbs.

DNR Response: You caught a chain pickerel, not a northern pike.The chain pickerel is one of our most common species of fish in the lakes, ponds and tidal rivers of Maryland.