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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TIOGA TOWNSHIP, P.A. (WETM) – It’s time for the next Big Fish Summer photo. Congratulations to Larry Hall, who caught this awesome pickerel, while fishing on the Tioga-Hammond Lakes in Pennsylvania.

I’ve caught a lot of pickerel but have never run into a school of them like this. In fact, I never knew they were schooling fish. Paul had said that the lake had a healthy pickerel population, and it ...