Any of several (chiefly smaller) kinds of North American pike, as (more fully grass pickerel)
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Cause it's a spawning area and ah, just last week I caught a twenty-two inch pickerel with a seven-pound bass on in behind it and I couldn't keep the bass, it was a trophy bass, like it was one that you would frame |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Speaker: No ah, down at my cottage we could catch a fish at least every fifteen minutes. We'd catch a pickerel or- um pickerel are usually the only ones we keep but there's- Interviewer: Why? Speaker: Ah, 'cause it's not as fishy as other fish. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Interviewer: I've never eaten salmon, I've eaten like tuna. Speaker: Oh, well tuna has a really strong fishy taste. Like if I were to cut up pickerel in there- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And I were cut up fish in another room- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Like tuna, you would know that I was cutting up tuna in that room. You wouldn't know that I was cutting up pickerel in this room, it could be, I-don't-know, chicken (laughs), uncooked chicken, I-don't-know |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: What kind of fish do you catch? Speaker: Pike and pickerel, mostly pike. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Yeah. Some people don't like pike but ah and-that but I- we like it because the bones are big and they're not hard to pick out. Whereas pickerel I find- pickerel is what's all the guys really like. But I find there's too many little bones. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: And then what were some of your fondest experiences ah, or memories with ah, fishing on- at- at the cottage. Speaker 1: Was catching big fish. Interviewer: Oh, how big was- what was the biggest one you caught? Speaker 1: (holds up hands to show size) Interviewer: Wow. Speaker 1: Yeah. Interviewer: Were they trout or, um- Speaker 2: Pickerel. Speaker 1: Pickerel. Pickerel. Interviewer: Oh. And then did you eat it afterwards? Speaker 1: Oh yes. Yeah. In fact, he caught- my son caught some yesterday or the day before. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: Now fishing in Nighthall-Lake where you- Nighthawk-Lake, were you fishing for pickerel or whitefish? But you-know, guessing- Speaker: Hopefully pickerel. Interviewer: Right. But whitefish is very- very common for Finnish ah people to eat. It's- I know- I know lots of Finnish families here that love whitefish so- Speaker: Well I think we prefer the pickerel and we- what's the other one? Pickerel and- Interviewer: Bass, perch, pike. Speaker: Pike. That's a- in- when the water was cold, pike was nice. Interviewer: Fried- the problem with fishing for pike in the summer it's slimy, yeah. Speaker: Yeah, well it- it- when the water's warm, the- they kind of outgrow themselves and- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: But pickerel is nice. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Interviewer: Now fishing in Nighthall-Lake where you- Nighthawk-Lake, were you fishing for pickerel or whitefish? But you-know, guessing- Speaker: Hopefully pickerel. Interviewer: Right. But whitefish is very- very common for Finnish ah people to eat. It's- I know- I know lots of Finnish families here that love whitefish so- Speaker: Well I think we prefer the pickerel and we- what's the other one? Pickerel and- Interviewer: Bass, perch, pike. Speaker: Pike. That's a- in- when the water was cold, pike was nice. Interviewer: Fried- the problem with fishing for pike in the summer it's slimy, yeah. Speaker: Yeah, well it- it- when the water's warm, the- they kind of outgrow themselves and- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: But pickerel is nice. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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And apparently there are ah, fish in there that didn't used to be in there. Pickerel in there now that we never ever got. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Fishing usually in the spring ah from this weekend when pickerel season opens- twenty-fourth. They'll- they'll be trying to get in now right now to go pickerel fishing. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Speaker: We have some pretty cool spots on it like um right at the end there's rapids, little rapids and we call it Pickerel-Rapids because that's where you get some pickerel, ah, pickerel like walleye, do you-know what walleye is? Interviewer: Um, a fish? Speaker: Yeah, it's a fish. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I- I say pickerel but I think walleye is the right term for it, I think- I think pickerel's sort-of like the Canadian version of walleye, it's the same thing but that's the word we use for it. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: What kind of fish do they- Speaker: Ah, pickerel- pickerel and pike, that's about- yeah, that's about it. Interviewer: I heard lots of people say walleyes- Speaker: Walleye is the same as pickerel- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In Northern-Ontario. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Walleye is ah, known for the south and in the north it's Pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Interviewer: What kind of fish do they- Speaker: Ah, pickerel- pickerel and pike, that's about- yeah, that's about it. Interviewer: I heard lots of people say walleyes- Speaker: Walleye is the same as Pickerel- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In Northern-Ontario. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Walleye is ah, known for the south and in the north it's Pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Interviewer: What kind of fish do they- Speaker: Ah, pickerel- pickerel and pike, that's about- yeah, that's about it. Interviewer: I heard lots of people say walleyes- Speaker: Walleye is the same as pickerel- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In Northern-Ontario. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Walleye is ah, known for the south and in the north it's pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: Ah, what kind of fish you guys get at the lake? Speaker: Pike, and pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Yeah, I love fishing (laughs). I only got one pickerel in my life, and- one pickerel. I- in my whole life and it was only probably a six-pound pickerel but I was so proud of it, I had to get it stuffed (laughs). Cost me like two-hundred-dollars to stuff this six-pound pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: Were they trout or, um- Speaker 1: Pickerel. Speaker 2: Pickerel. Pickerel. Interviewer: Oh. And then did you eat it afterwards? |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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He loved trout. So l-- my dad was ah somebody that- he had a lot of patience. He would love to go out and- and even if he only get- got one fish throughout the day, that was fine with him because you had to have patience for trout. Trout's not ah like pickerel, or like pike where you... |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: Oh so you fished in the winter too? Speaker: Oh yeah. Oh gosh yeah. Interviewer: What do you get in the winter? Speaker: All the trout, yeah. Yeah, then they went and put pickerel in too and that took the fle-- the food away from trout, eh? |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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There was the odd mud pout and then the spring, there was quite a- we got quite a few sucker out of there in the spring, yeah. And I don't care, they talk about their pickerel and their bass and-all-this but you get a sucker and clean it up well out of that cold water, I think it's just as good. Best as you'll get. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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I don't think there was any limit, they could just get as many as they wanted because they were- there was- they were very plentiful and they are one of the best fishes to eat. Have you ever ah ate pickerel? |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
