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 ...

There are a few times in the year when fly rods and northern pike meet in the shallows of large reservoirs. Springtime spawning is a welcome arrival after a long winter dealing with ice and snow in ...

Northern pike fishing is excellent at Williams Fork Reservoir, as Andy Yutzy can attest. Casting from a boat, he had already caught and released three smaller pike before hooking a monster last week ...

Although the traditional trout season is closed, anglers can take advantage of productive fall fishing opportunities for ...

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 ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - Nathan Lafleur says it never entered his mind to keep the massive northern pike he caught Wednesday evening while fly fishing from shore along a shallow bay of Devils Lake. Never ...

Our flies were Lefty"s Deceivers. The Deceiver is one of the best northern pike flies you can use, especially in the springtime. Casting these big flies on long, heavy rods can be tiring. When your ...

CROOKED LAKE - Members of the Missouri Valley Fly FIshers Club spent Saturday casting colorful fly lines and thumb-sized, brightly colored flies into shallow inlets on this lake north of Turtle Lake.

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 ...

DEVILS LAKE-Nathan Lafleur says it never entered his mind to keep the massive northern pike he caught Wednesday evening while fly fishing from shore along a shallow bay of Devils Lake. Never mind the ...