Training Attack Pickerel

You might laugh at the title but sometimes I need protection for other fishers trying to catch my fish, so I started training pickerel, when they are still pickerel pups, to recognize my call for help. They protect me for those that would catch my fish.

They usually do one of two things. First they will try to cut the line of anyone close to me that has a fellow fish on that exceeds 20 inches and if that fails they will come out of the water like a torpedo and try to knock them out of the boat.

Even with all that training and dozens of them scattered around New Brunswick I still couldn’t stop Jamie from catching a bigger pickerel than me. I may have to resort to sharpening the edges of his paddles so they cut the line better.

Jamie took a good hit to the kidneys from one of my trained pickerel but it didn’t stop him, barely slowed him down.

Well now I’m off to think up a new scheme for getting the bigger fish.

P.S. I did think of leaving him home the next trip but it’s his car and his canoe, so I had to rethink that one as well.

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