The chain pickerel, a member of the pike family known for chain-like pattern on its greenish body, were in a biting mood for last Sunday's ice fishing contest on Lake Hopatcong, hosted by the Knee ...

The lakes in New Jersey's higher altitudes are freezing up, and anglers took to the ice this weekend to catch bass and ...

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 ...

As a contingent of rockfish chasers continue brave winter’s chill with good results, some of us have turned our casts toward chain pickerel, a ferocious-looking fish with a toothy grin the Grinch ...

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 ...

On the same day, two anglers fishing in Maryland set the first new state fishing records of 2015 by landing an 8-pound chain pickerel and a 28.8-pound tautog—which may also qualify as a new ...

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 ...

John Byrd Jr. holds up the rare blue-mouthed fish. John Byrd Jr., of Bowling Green, Virginia has been fishing the same private farm pond for decades, but he’s never caught a fish quite like the one he ...

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia regulators say a state-record chain pickerel has been caught in Preston County. The Division of Natural Resources said in a news release that Matt Born of ...

After catching mostly largemouth bass for the better part of three hours, this fish felt different. The runs were deep, and when it changed direction it did so purposefully — steadfast in it ...