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 ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Northern pike have invaded Sebago Lake and are threatening the waterway’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...