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 ...

Little pickerel are a dime a dozen and easy to catch, but you want the big dog, and that takes a little more planning. Whether you’re camped out on the pond or live close to a soggy, boggy area, ...

Well, it looks like we just endured a genuine blast of real winter weather. That is, enough to put a few inches of “unsafe ice” on our central Maryland lakes and ponds. Shucks, I was hoping for some ...

It was windy and overcast, not the perfect day for offshore fishing. When the phone buzzed, I should have known it would be my fishing buddy, Capt. Butch Foster of Yeah Right Charters. “I had an ...

I’ve got this old plug — a double-propeller Devil’s Horse – that’s scraped worse than sod at a shale site. But honestly, over the seasons I’ve delighted in getting this lure progressively battered.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anglers are enjoying the “hard water” that is covering many of the lakes across Pennsylvania as ice fishing is officially here.

Given the chance, what well-rounded angler doesn’t enjoy a pickerel fishing sojourn whenever we get the chance? For all of its supposed menacing features — a snakish body all tatted up with ...

A fisherman has broken his own state record. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources announced this week that Matt ...

A Reedsville man will have his name etched into West Virginia's record books after catching one big fish this month.