bbfrogger best way i have found to cook pickerel is the old fashion way! age under loosen soil for 2 months with a tomato plant on top ,pick tomatos when ripe boil down to sauce add meatball pour over pasta.....no slim
I hate pickerel - I agree about the eagles and seagulls .... I tried to eat one once - not bad meat but too much work for me .... between that and all the slime and all the times they've broken me off I won't shed a tear no matter how they die. We thin them out pretty good ice fishing every year - lawfully of course ... mostly. . I can't count how many times I've been fishing off our dock and a fish like a rock bass or crappie swim by and a pickerel shoots out and grabs it - has no chance at all to swallow it due to the shape difference .... they just sink out of sight so I'm not sure what happens after that.