After our guide cut the outboard, I grabbed my fly rod, stepped up to the bow deck, and surveyed the scene. It had been a long, exhausting journey from my home in New York to way-way-way-northern ...

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 ...

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.

Why Jigging for Pike is More Fun Than Tip-Ups Tip-ups probably account for the majority of pike caught through the ice. Countless others are caught incidentally by anglers in pursuit of perch, ...

Northern pike are one of the most widely distributed fish across the Ice Belt. It seems comparatively few people fish specifically for them in summer, but in winter, many anglers set out tip-ups ...

A rebounding pike population the past few years has made one thing clear -- if you fish, your catch will include more pike, whether you like it or not. That means cleaning more pike. In a 1997 article ...

A Pennsylvania angler caught the biggest fish of his life while ice fishing Friday afternoon at High Point Lake in Somerset County. Dalton Stevanus, 21, of the Rockwood area, pulled a 44½ inch ...

Anglers looking to tangle with big, toothy predators in fresh water would be hard pressed to find better targets than muskie and pike. The two game fish are closely related, and they inhabit some of ...