Northern pike might be closely related to muskies, but they’re not muskies. They have very different feeding habits. They exhibit different predatory behaviors. Pike are also smaller. Yet despite this ...

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 ...

Famed for its spectacular trout fishing, Montana’s Bighorn River recently gave Kansas City, Mo., fly angler Nathan Diesel a big, toothy surprise — a 38-inch, 16-pound northern pike. “How crazy is that ...

Missoula's Neal Cote has perfected fly-fishing techniques and his own brand of killer fly patterns to become a master of catching northern pike. Competing against scores of anglers using traditional, ...

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.

It was still dark when Malachi Cryder and a friend decided to fish a section of the Clark Fork River just beyond Reserve Street one Sunday morning earlier this month. Cryder, 16, already an adept fly ...

FISHING — Outdoor Life once headlined Montana’s Bighorn River as the Best Trout Stream in America. Apparently the predators heard the news. A fly fisherman got the surprise of his life last month when ...

Famed for its spectacular trout fishing, Montana’s Bighorn River recently gave Kansas City, Missouri, fly angler Nathan Diesel a big, toothy surprise – a 38-inch, 16-pound northern pike. The catch is ...

Lynn Lake, Manitoba — Somewhere on that cedar-thick esker was a bull moose the guys had seen scampering skyward through trees and moss and away from a 16-foot aluminum boat that had invaded Pyta Lake ...

Despite the recent surge of colder temperatures, the prospects to go ice fishing are still a ways off in most parts of Michigan. In the meantime, pike and panfish appear to be two of the top targets ...

Cree River, Saskatchewan — Like a good warm-up band that readies a crowd for the headline talent, the best afternoon of fishing from 31 years of crashing Canada’s wilderness began with atmosphere and ...