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Originally Posted by OntPickFish

In Ontario, most folks over 50 refer to them as Pickerel, and anyone who called them Walleye, were visiting Americans(people from Ohio also called fish "feesh"). My dad claimed that the full name was Yellow Pickerel, to differentiate them from Blue Pickerel, that had been extinct in Ont for 100 years. He also claimed the term Walleye came from the full name Walleyed Pike. Never seen a Chain Pickerel, or a sauger, but obviously they exist! Nothing is right or wrong, Americans call all carbonated beverages "soda", and in Ont if you ask for a soda, you get soda water.

I can remember catching blue pickerel in lake Erie and i'm not over a 100 years old And their actually making a come back in some areas but they are not the identical fish they were