You guys must not be fishers if you never catch these fish.
Just go out to a lake with alot of cover and fish the lake like you would for bass except with smaller lures. Make sure you fish the shoreline and also a few casts by sunken logs won't hurt.
Also remember to bend down the barbs so the hooks don't damage the fish to much.
If your looking for smaller specimens take a good sturdy dipnet and bring it up under any floating clumps of plants and algea. Young pickerel always hang out in these areas.
Also often on sunny days if you look along the shore you should be able to spot them, then comes the difficult part of catching them. When they run away they usually only dart a few feet so if you use a seine you should be able to coral them towards the shore until you can catch them.
Hope this helps.
Just go out to a lake with alot of cover and fish the lake like you would for bass except with smaller lures. Make sure you fish the shoreline and also a few casts by sunken logs won't hurt.
Also remember to bend down the barbs so the hooks don't damage the fish to much.
If your looking for smaller specimens take a good sturdy dipnet and bring it up under any floating clumps of plants and algea. Young pickerel always hang out in these areas.
Also often on sunny days if you look along the shore you should be able to spot them, then comes the difficult part of catching them. When they run away they usually only dart a few feet so if you use a seine you should be able to coral them towards the shore until you can catch them.
Hope this helps.
