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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — After fishing in the same private pond in Caroline County for 20 years, this fisherman reeled in a catch he never would have expected. John Byrd, of Bowling Green, had ...

A Virginia man caught a fish that’s so rare, it was recognized by state wildlife officials. Retired veteran John Byrd, of Bowling Green, Virginia, reeled in an 11.5-inch blue-mouth chain pickerel from ...

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 ...

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 ...

The older I get the more I prefer the company of fish to most people. And this time of year, I like to get reacquainted with a longtime piscatorial friend, the chain pickerel. I was first introduced ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — After fishing ...