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.

When fly-fishing for northern pike anglers use flies that are up to 6 inches and longer. Jake DeGroot casts while cast as Ryan Gabert steers the board during a fly-fishing trip for northern pike on ...

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 ...

Anglers who follow the calendar, yearning for the next fly-fishing challenge, look ahead to ice off. When the ice thins and begins to recede on lakes and reservoirs, fly fishers get first shots at ...

In the beginning, I had a classic Zebco 202 spin-cast combo, and it was good. At least, good enough for 5-year-old me. But I've owned many types of fishing rods since I was a freckle-faced boy who ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Anglers are encouraged to participate in the Northern Pike Reward Program at Lake Roosevelt in an effort to reduce the fish in the area. The Lake Roosevelt co-managers (Colville ...

It’s time to gear up for Michigan’s trout, walleye and northern pike fishing seasons, all opening later this month. The 2024-25 fishing license and regulation season kicks off today, April 1. Anglers ...

An Idaho angler who spends most of his free time fishing for northern pike has established a new state record with the catch of what the state described as "a true monster of a fish." "Pike is what I ...

Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing. About a month ago I wrote a column about a wonderful July morning in my fishing boat, ...