Who is the Chain Pickerel?
The chain pickerel is a fresh water fish related to the pike and distinguishable because of their chain like colouring where the pike is more dotted. I am not completely sure of all the places in the world the pickerel lives but from my experience and from reading other people’s blogs I know that they live along our North American coast. I fish them here in New Brunswick but when I lived in Ontario they called walleye by the name pickerel. Which really confused me when I moved down here. I was just reading something the other on a forum where I guy was saying he fishing chain pickerel North Carolina. I also read on Wikipedia that they range all the way down into Florida. I always thought they only lived in northern climates, guess I learned something new. The image above is a close up shot on the side of a chain pickerel. Forgive the quality, err lack of quality. I get a bit shakey when I am excited and believe me I get excited pickerel fishing. The chain pickerel has a distinctive dar
