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The Pickerels, another group of this family, are much smaller fishes.

From Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield by Douglas, Alan

Among Fishes I may mention the Family of Pickerels, with their flat, long snout, and slender, almost cylindrical body, as contrasted with the plump, compressed body and tapering tail of the Trout Family.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various