Duluth-area bait shops are finding a way around a new regulation that prohibits the use of smelt from Lake Superior as bait. The ruling went into effect last spring after VHS, or viral hemorrhagic ...

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Join us on an icy adventure targeting northern pike in Northern Alberta. Tips, techniques, and plenty of exciting catches ...

Rich Lester, of Manlius, caught this 59- inch, 48 lb., northern pike May 28 on Sullivan lake in Northern Quebec on a 9-inch, smelt "dead bait". Every year, Lester and his friend Dr. Tom Cappa, of ...

When a fish finally made its way to Zach and Mike Nunemacher’s ice fishing hole, they knew it was a big one. The fish had made “several good runs,” but the fishermen’s first attempt to reel it ...

PIERRE | Lake Oahe and many other Western South Dakota waterways are experiencing a renaissance in terms of producing trophy northern pike. Black Hills lakes provide cold clear water and abundant bait ...

If your goal is to catch a trophy northern pike, the best time to do it is coming soon. The big, old females, those 20-pound-plus leviathans, move into shallow bays to spawn even before the ice goes ...