In the hierarchy of Esox, the chain pickerel sits squarely at the bottom both literally and figuratively. Compared to their big cousins, the pike and muskie, they don’t get much love despite being ...

I’ve been a fan of chain pickerel since I was a kid. That’s largely because where I grew up there weren’t any pike and even though there were some muskie haunts, those fish felt too unattainable. As ...

Pickerel can be caught year-round, but the prime months are November through April. In warmer months, pickerel seem to retreat to depths, weedbeds and pad fields. But as waters cool and vegetation ...

Back in 1845, when Henry David Thoreau first moved to Massachusetts’ Walden Pond to confront the essential facts of life, one such encounter involved chain pickerel. The philosopher got all gushy over ...

Pickerel fishing is red hot now. Right on schedule: I like it when Mother Nature cooperates with my projected schedules. Reports have been pouring in to me from rivers and ponds through much of the ...

Pickerel fishing in the cedar waters of the south Jersey Pine Barrens normally has its ups and downs on any given year. This has a lot to do with the water levels in the sandy bogs, swamps and shallow ...

Spring is highlighted by opening day for the glamorous freshwater gamefish. April 1 is the trout fishermen's day, and the third Saturday in June is what smallmouth and largemouth bass anglers eagerly ...

Don’t look at the calendar now, but these mid-January days are the times that can try the souls of a North Texas resident who likes to hunt and fish. Deer season just ended, the local ducks are ...

The peak angling times for trout, shad and crappie bass are over. Prime time for river smallmouth has also ended although you can still pick them up on the Delaware and parts of the Lehigh. The ...

When the new angling regulations are published each March before the start of a new sport fishing season in Nova Scotia, the ...