Chain pickerel are a nuisance. At least that’s how a lot of bass anglers think of them. Throughout their huge range, pickerel share many of the same waters as largemouth and smallmouth bass and are ...

Little pickerel are a dime a dozen and easy to catch, but you want the big dog, and that takes a little more planning. Whether you’re camped out on the pond or live close to a soggy, boggy area, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pickerel are the hot topic of conversation among area anglers. Those toothy, green-spotted fish continue to destroy expensive artificial lures and continue to eat the $1 wild shiners used as live bass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anglers are enjoying the “hard water” that is covering many of the lakes across Pennsylvania as ice fishing is officially here.

Well, it looks like we just endured a genuine blast of real winter weather. That is, enough to put a few inches of “unsafe ice” on our central Maryland lakes and ponds. Shucks, I was hoping for some ...

It was windy and overcast, not the perfect day for offshore fishing. When the phone buzzed, I should have known it would be my fishing buddy, Capt. Butch Foster of Yeah Right Charters. “I had an ...

I’ve got this old plug — a double-propeller Devil’s Horse – that’s scraped worse than sod at a shale site. But honestly, over the seasons I’ve delighted in getting this lure progressively battered.