FYI: Chain pickerel are "jacks" in the Deep South. I caught a 22in black one out of Banks Lake (where "Gator" was filmed). I wish I'd had it mounted. Also CPR a 9lb black as a spade LM. Got that SOB on a buzzbait just at daybreak against a downed cypress. Talk about a CLAP during the strike!! All fish from this place are jet black with a beautiful bronze hue.
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Find it interesting a duplicate term exists for similar fish with the major geographic and cultural distance.