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 ...

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, ...

Despite the algae bloom on the lake’s surface, I could easily see the red-colored head of my fly and behind it the fly’s silver mylar tail. The fact that the fly was large didn’t hurt, but its size ...

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.

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 ...

Cree River, Saskatchewan — Like a good warm-up band that readies a crowd for the headline talent, the best afternoon of fishing from 31 years of crashing Canada’s wilderness began with atmosphere and ...

KALISPELL - A fisheries biologist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and parks says a Kalispell angler has likely set a world record for northern pike caught by fly fishing after hauling in a 29.74-pound, 47 ...

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 ...