When do pickerel come out the most, summer, fall, winter, or spring?
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Posted 28 October 2007 - 03:54 PM
When do pickerel come out the most, summer, fall, winter, or spring?
Pickerel are always "out" but you can find a great many young in the early spring. In northern Illinois they (grass pickerel) often spawn under the ice and the young can be found soon after.
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Posted 28 October 2007 - 04:00 PM
Pickerel are always "out" but you can find a great many young in the early spring. In northern Illinois they (grass pickerel) often spawn under the ice and the young can be found soon after.
Ok. Thanks. Just wanted to know because in the 10 years I've been collecting at this creek I have seen two. I caught both, but in my ignorance I put them with a 6" LMB (they were 4").
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Posted 29 October 2007 - 05:12 PM
Ok. Thanks. Just wanted to know because in the 10 years I've been collecting at this creek I have seen two. I caught both, but in my ignorance I put them with a 6" LMB (they were 4").
I wanna go Pickeral fishing but Im not sure if they have them in New York City. Upstate usually has them but im not sure about the city or which lakes has them.
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Posted 29 October 2007 - 10:35 PM
Basher Kill has redfin pickeral about 1.5 hrs from New York NY take the turn off Rt 209 in Haven NYI wanna go Pickeral fishing but Im not sure if they have them in New York City. Upstate usually has them but im not sure about the city or which lakes has them.
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Posted 31 October 2007 - 07:30 AM
Sounds like a lovely place. I wonder if you can camp there, by the lake, with a bunch of doomed teenagers.
Actually, you would be surprised at how quickly you "get out" of the city when you head north up the hudson valley or northwest towards Basherkill in the foothills of the Catskill mountains.
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Posted 31 October 2007 - 07:44 PM
Only once in a lifetime!Sounds like a lovely place. I wonder if you can camp there, by the lake, with a bunch of doomed teenagers.
It is a fun place to sample, Bluespot Sunfish (protected in NY), Ironcolor shiners (protected in NY), Bowfins in the swampy area and follow the road a ways and it turns to a riffle/pool stream with margined madtoms and shield darters. Caught a small lamprey of some kind once.
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 11:33 AM
Pickerel are always "out" but you can find a great many young in the early spring. In northern Illinois they (grass pickerel) often spawn under the ice and the young can be found soon after.
This spring I caught 1 baby grass pickerel, and about 5 baby muskies/northerns in one day. I only kept the grass because the others weren't looking too good. They were all about 2 inches long.
Then in the early summer, I caught another grass pickerel about three inches long, and a bunch of fully grown ones.
I have had success catching them all year, but mostly mid spring through early summer.
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