Something you often see when you read an article about pickerel is that the smaller the species of pike the poorer the table fare. I've never eaten any of the pickerel, but I'm guessing this is something that was written ages ago and has, like many other things that aren't true, been repeated over and over again by people who really don't know what they're talking about. But everyone to his or her own tastes. Some people like to eat trout and others don't.
