How to Use pickerel in a Sentence

pickerel

noun

• The pond, two or three acres in extent, teemed with pike, pickerel, and perch.
  — Don Holm, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• Bluegills over 11 inches have come to hand and the ever present toothy critters (pike and pickerel) always seem to be around.
  — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Oct. 2019
• By hooking a shiner through the back and using a long-shank hook and 15-pound fluorocarbon, I rarely get cut off by pickerel.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 10 May 2023
• The pickerel would have been perfectly safe to consume.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• 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.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 7 May 2018
• All the species of fish — trout, whitefish, pickerel, herring, suckers — faced the heart, surrounding and protecting it.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
• Alan Zaremba reported good catches of bass 1-3 pounds, oscars, chain pickerel and panfish in the finger canals along the west side of U.S. Highway 27.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 May 2017
• Sometimes a pickerel hits hard, but often the take is extremely subtle.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Nov. 2021
• But my 5-year-old daughter, already a bluegill and pickerel slayer, is itching to graduate.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 30 Mar. 2020
• The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources quickly jumped in to dispel any worry about the pickerel.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• Some other species found are largemouth bass, brown bullhead, white catfish, chain pickerel, brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout, according to ctfishfinder.com.
  — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 17 May 2017
• 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.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Nov. 2021
• Other fish include pickerel, white perch, yellow perch, sunfish and bullhead.
  — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 17 May 2017
• People like to catch bass, perch and pickerel in the 1,092-acre natural lake, according to Carolina Sportsman magazine.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 7 May 2018
• Often, the general contractor catches enough crappie to feed the whole block, not to mention plenty of bass, pickerel, perch, basically anything with fins.
  — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 8 July 2018
• 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.
  — Louisiana Travel, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
• 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.
  — Louisiana Travel, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
• Though bluefish depart cooler waters, gray trout and speckled trout become more accessible along with white perch, yellow perch and brackish water pickerel.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Oct. 2021
• Visitors to the preserve trundle along a wobbly wooden boardwalk, where they are welcomed by a breathtaking view of a serene, blue lake framed by stands of native flora: swamp loosestrife, pickerel weed, lotus flowers, swamp milkweed and buttonbush.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• Mature specimens of Osmanthus ilicifolius, Pinus stobus 'Nana' (Eastern white pine), azaleas and magnolias share the grounds with pitcher plants, pickerel rush and waterlilies.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2018
• 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.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024