BEMIDJI, Minn. – Every fall, about the time most outdoors enthusiasts across the Northland put away their rods and reels and set their sights on hunting, Steve Young gets serious about fly fishing.

There’s rarely a warning. Not with pike. When a striped bass attacks a topwater fly, you often see a boil or a swirl before the toilet flushes. Snakeheads will track a foam frog and wake the surface ...

Fly fishing for pike has been around for a few years now, with many anglers targeting big waters like Chew Valley Lake.

Kelson Hickman, 13, of Great Falls caught this 37 1 / 2-inch, 14-pound Northern Pike on Saturday, Aug. 2, at Pishkun Reservoir. He was using a 6 weight St. Croix fly rod on 5X mono tippet with a fly ...

All fish are predators, but northern pike come dressed for the part—needle teeth, vacant eyes, thick slime, serpentine shape—which is part of what make pike fishing so much fun. Their primeval ...

After mowing the lawn, putting in some of the garden and scrubbing the kitchen and bathroom floors, I decided that I needed to go fishing. I really didn't have the time or the yen to go to the Bighorn ...

Unable to fit more than the pike’s head in the trout net, the two anglers boosted the fish onto the bank and marveled at its size. After the first couple of photos, DuFresne talked Diesel into posing ...

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