;Dwent fishing at 10am till about 2pm got a lot small ones and right before i left put on a creature bait and cast out then bam like lighting my rob bends like hell and she takes off to the left like a rocket ,i thought i finally broke the double digits on this one how it was fighting then i land it and  its a small pickeral ,,wow she fought hard

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and one of the many small bass ,seen sum big ones but no takers tried every lure and worm etc.

Those chain pickerel sure do put up a good fight.

Its always fun to catch something different.  Nice fish!

Thats really cool... what I would give to catch a pickeral.

pickerel are definitley the hardest fighters in my local waters!

i hooked my PB pickerel and i thought that i had at least an 8lb bass on the line. turned out to be an 18 inch pickerel. sure was fun to catch!

a lot of guys hate catching these and kill them when they do, but i really like to catch them!

I agree, pickerel are a lot of fun to catch. We caught a few of them in the Flint river when I lived in Georgia.

I love catching pickerel. They grab that bait and run. What a blast. Congrats to you. ;D

thanks all  , i got a 4 pder last yr. and and was a blast to get in to shore ,,,,

Pickerel are alot of fun to catch.  They really smash a bait.   They are really good eating too.  Be careful of the bones, but the meat is very sweet and tasty.