How to Use pickerel in a Sentence
pickerel
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The pond, two or three acres in extent, teemed with pike, pickerel, and perch.
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Don Holm,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2023
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Trout, pike, and pickerel—all of which are popular on the table—have many more small bones that need to be dealt with than snakeheads.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
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Trout, pike, and pickerel—all of which are popular on the table—have many more small bones that need to be dealt with than snakeheads.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
20 July 2023
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Sometimes a pickerel hits hard, but often the take is extremely subtle.
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Bill May,
baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll,
21 Nov. 2021
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Bluegills over 11 inches have come to hand and the ever present toothy critters (pike and pickerel) always seem to be around.
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Jim Gronaw,
baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll,
6 Oct. 2019
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Lounge the day away while waiting for a pickerel, trout, crappie, or largemouth bass to catch your line, or wade in a nearby stream, as four miles of them await.
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Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
2 Apr. 2026
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Other fish include pickerel, white perch, yellow perch, sunfish and bullhead.
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Frank Cohen,
courant.com,
17 May 2017
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But my 5-year-old daughter, already a bluegill and pickerel slayer, is itching to graduate.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
30 Mar. 2020
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At a second lake on the property plans call for removing the pickerel, carp and bull fish and stocking it with catfish, bass and crappie.
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Carrie Napoleon,
Post-Tribune,
7 May 2018
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By hooking a shiner through the back and using a long-shank hook and 15-pound fluorocarbon, I rarely get cut off by pickerel.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
10 May 2023
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All the species of fish — trout, whitefish, pickerel, herring, suckers — faced the heart, surrounding and protecting it.
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Peter Kujawinski,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2017
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Though bluefish depart cooler waters, gray trout and speckled trout become more accessible along with white perch, yellow perch and brackish water pickerel.
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Bill May,
baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll,
3 Oct. 2021
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Keeping the rod high, at least 45 degrees above the surface, greatly facilitates this retrieve and allows feeling a pickerel taking the lure or bait.
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Bill May,
baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll,
21 Nov. 2021
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Often, the general contractor catches enough crappie to feed the whole block, not to mention plenty of bass, pickerel, perch, basically anything with fins.
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Jason Nark,
Philly.com,
8 July 2018
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The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources quickly jumped in to dispel any worry about the pickerel.
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Joe Cermele,
Field & Stream,
14 Feb. 2023
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Enough northern pike and chain pickerel are still spawning with each other to keep those fish lines strong; currently the fish hybridization happens at the tail end of the pike spawning season and the very beginning of the pickerel’s mating.
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Ella Nilsen,
CNN,
6 Apr. 2024
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Additionally, overgrown, ultra-shallow shoreline areas that hold spawning sunfish, prowling largemouths or ambushing pickerel are often best fished from the confines of a quiet, stealthy yak.
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Jim Gronaw,
Baltimore Sun,
2 July 2023
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People like to catch bass, perch and pickerel in the 1,092-acre natural lake, according to Carolina Sportsman magazine.
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Joe Marusak,
charlotteobserver,
7 May 2018
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Mature specimens of Osmanthus ilicifolius, Pinus stobus 'Nana' (Eastern white pine), azaleas and magnolias share the grounds with pitcher plants, pickerel rush and waterlilies.
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Janet Eastman,
OregonLive.com,
9 May 2018
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The 6,400-acre waterway, located halfway between Shreveport and Monroe, is generously stocked with largemouth and striped bass, bluegill, channel catfish, sac-à-lait, pickerel and bream.
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Louisiana Travel,
Smithsonian,
7 Mar. 2017
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