If fly fishing for trout is the elegance and grace of a no-look pass in basketball, then fly fishing for northern pike is a rim-rattling slam dunk. "There is nothing as chaotic as a pike strike," ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, at Hayward, Wis., has verified that Ivan Keeney's 29.7-pound northern pike is the North American record in the fly-fishing category for 15-pound test line ...

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 ...

For all the science and technology that has been applied to the sport of fishing, the primary allure of this primal pastime remains the mystery hidden in dark depths. With each cast, we reach with ...

BASALT – With the bounty of top-notch rivers here in the Roaring Fork Valley, there’s really no excuse not to go fly fishing. The trout fishing on the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers is truly ...

The small Upper Peninsula town of Curtis is all about fishing. Especially when it comes to fishing northern pike. North of the Mighty Mac and sandwiched between the expansive Manistique Lakes is ...

JEFFERSON — There’s nothing like the flip of a calendar page to put the “bite” back into northern pike. Few gamefish have been the subject of as much folklore as northerns, and among the old wives’ ...