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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

Anglers are enjoying the “hard water” that is covering many of the lakes across Pennsylvania as ice fishing is officially here. Anglers are drilling holes through several inches of ice to catch ...

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 ...

1. This fish is often misidentified as a pike. There are a few easy ways to tell them apart. Look at the fish’s dorsal fin, which, on both, is situated well back on body. If the fin is unspotted and ...

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 ...

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