Northerns aren’t muskies, so there’s no need to hit the lake with a fly rod that could hoist a Volkswagen. Here's what you actually need ...

Dec. 6—BEMIDJI — 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.

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 ...

Ryan Gabert opens up a case of brightly colored flies Tuesday on Pactola Reservoir. When fly-fishing for northern pike anglers use flies that are up to 6 inches and longer. Jake DeGroot casts while ...

Sight casting to a 20-pound pike, pitching a flesh pattern past its nose and stripping it for all you’re worth is the simple technique. As the fly zips past a fish, the brutes will coil and swipe the ...

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 ...

Fly fisherman Laurence Gibb says he's still shaking more than a week after catching what he claims is a record-breaking pike. The Bangor man says he caught a 41-pound pike - which would make it the ...

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.