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 ...

Given the chance, what well-rounded angler doesn’t enjoy a pickerel fishing sojourn whenever we get the chance? For all of its supposed menacing features — a snakish body all tatted up with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...