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 ...

Now there is an endless array to rig baits, both live and dead. Last week’s column addressed tactics for targeting trophy late-season Northern Pike in a pre-spawn phase, in which I almost always ...

MENAHGA — For Tim Schwartz, a Wadena native who now lives in Park Rapids, swapping fish stories with the locals got an ...

Tip-ups probably account for the majority of pike caught through the ice. Countless others are caught incidentally by anglers ...

The frigid weather this winter has provided an angler the opportunity to ice fish in a remote part of the Allegheny Reservoir in northwestern Pennsylvania, and he was rewarded with the fish of a ...

A group of fishermen had quite a surprise when they discovered their catch of the day had something firm and seemingly whole inside its belly. Northern pike are voracious predators and will eat just ...

Watch angler catch 44.5-inch northern pike through the ice on Pennsylvania LakeDalton Stevanus of the Rockwood area hoists a 44.5-inch northern pike through the ice Jan. 10, 2025, at High Point Lake ...

Just about everyone I spoke to in the two days before my winter camping and ice fishing trip to the Mississippi River near Trempealeau thought I was nuts. With a forecast high of 2 degrees for day one ...