1 cup pickling or table salt 6 cups water 1-11/2 lbs. fish fillets cut in one inch chunks In glass container combine salt and water till dissolved. Add fish chunks Cover and refrigerate 12 hours.

While most anglers are currently pursuing striped bass up to 50 pounds, sea bass up to 11 pounds, scup, flounder, and bluefish at the coast, a good number of freshwater anglers are reveling in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pickerel fishing is red hot now. Right on schedule: I like it when Mother Nature cooperates with my projected schedules. Reports have been pouring in to me from rivers and ponds through much of the ...

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 ...