The word "pickerel" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a type of small, freshwater fish belonging to the pike family. An example of its usage in a sentence could be: "The angler proudly displayed the large pickerel he caught in the lake."
Founded in 1835 by settlers from New York, it was first called Pike Creek, then was called Southport for its importance as a shipping centre, and in 1850 was renamed Kenosha, derived from the Potawatomi term for "pike," or "pickerel".
Although sometimes confused with the leopard frog, the pickerel frog has a distinguishing orange coloration to the underside of its gangly legs.
Whitefish, lake trout, pickerel, and northern pike are fished commercially on Great Slave Lake and some smaller lakes.
Dark bands on the legs add to the pickerel frog's natural camouflage.
Several rivers are famous for their Atlantic salmon, while trout, bass, and pickerel also attract sport fishing.
The pickerel frog is unique among spotted frogs in North America for the shape of the dark markings on its body, which are more square or rectangular than round (round markings are common on most other species of spotted frogs).
Fish include bass, pickerel, sauger, pike, trout, and whitefish.
I used to give the balls I found to my shad-and-pickerel-fishing companion George Hackl — Member Hackl of St. Andrews, et cetera, who long had a single-digit handicap.
It consisted, he said, of pickerel-weed seeds and unripened green strawberries stored in homemade vinegar of a low acidity, then blanched in water in a stone bowl.
When they were joined by singer Mark Lanegan and drummer Mark Pickerel, the new band played a couple of small shows there, too.
His son, another Barnett, combined the job of college cook with working as a bacon dealer, and also ran the Pickerel Inn, which survives to this day, and is a suitable place for visitors to drink a toast to some previously unsung heroes of the life of town and gown.
