They are E. americanus americanus, commonly known as the redfin pickerel, and E. americanus vermiculatus, known better as the grass pickerel. |
The fishery in Lake Winnipeg is the largest for pickerel outside the Great Lakes region. |
In Midwestern states and elsewhere, walleyes are often called pickerel and sometimes walleyed pike. |
Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, horned bladderwort and water milfoil growing in the water. |
Whitefish, lake trout, pickerel, and northern pike are fished commercially on Great Slave Lake and some smaller lakes. |
Although sometimes confused with the leopard frog, the pickerel frog has a distinguishing orange coloration to the underside of its gangly legs. |