PFBC Chain Pickerel Feature Page

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Chain Pickerel

Pickerel catches from left to right: Paul Altenbach from Lake Nockamixon, Grace and John Szwarc at Canoe Lake, Ranger Dan Gol at Lake Nockamixon

Interactive Map of Warmwater / Coolwater Fisheries

PA Map - linked to list of PA waters with chain pickerel

Caught in PA

Robert Balint caught this 27 inch chain pickerel on February 24, 2008 at Frances Slocum State Park. He caught it on a tip-up, using a medium shiner.

Grace Szwarc (with husband John) landed this 24 inch chain pickerel from Canoe Lake in February 2011

Keith Engle with 25 inch chain pickerel caught from Chambers Lake, Chester County, in January 2006

Lukas Diehl, caught and released what very well could have been the new state record chain pickerel in Faeb. 2013. The fish was weighed on an unofficial scale he had with him while on the ice. It weighed 9 lbs. and was 33 inches long. This would have beat the current state record that stands at 8 lbs., 14 oz.

Ming Dao poses with a nice pickerel he caught in January 2004 at Lake Ontelaunee, Berks County. Photo by Vic Attardo.

Biggest PA catches in 2012 (not pictured)

7 lb. 1 oz.—Francis Walter Dam
5 lb. 8 oz.—Hidden Lake
5 lb. 4 oz.—Nockamixon State Park
5 lb. 3.5 oz.—Francis Walter Dam
3 lb. 15 oz.—Kaercher Creek Lake

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PA State Record — 8 lb. 14 oz.
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Chain pickerel fisheries management overview

Regs-summary book

Regs-brood stock lakes

Species overview, identification, habitat, life history (Pikes chapter from PA Fishes book)

Biologist Reports - surveys of lakes and streams

PFBC GIS data at PASDA

Fishing

PA fish species