Northern pike make outstanding fly rod targets. They’re eager to eat a wide variety of flies, and even if your fly-fishing skills are minimal, it doesn’t take years of experience to be successful.

Fall is the best time to target big northern pike on surface flies. Here's everything you need to know to get in on the topwater action. Print Subscription-$35 for the Best Field & Stream Stories ...

Fly fishing enthusiast Jeff Korbel, who also makes and sells fly rods and hand-tied flies, is among the anglers who helped spur interest in fall fly fishing for northern pike in the Bemidji area.

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.

The 5 best lures for catching northern pike—spoons, spinners, crankbaits, jerkbaits, and live suckers continue to dominate for aggressive pike.

Northern Pike On A Bunny Fly Sep 18, 2000, 12:00am EDT. Share. Save. ... (For your own set of custom-tied Horgan northern pike flies, call 406-276-3365.) So why weren't they biting?

Although pickled pike recipe variations are more abundant than the white spots on a northern, this basic one will point you in the right direction and you can tweak it as you see fit. One word of ...

Northern pike might be closely related to muskies, but they’re not muskies. They have very different feeding habits. They exhibit different predatory behaviors. Pike are also smaller. Yet despite this ...

Pike certainly aren't the first species that comes to mind when you say "fly-fishing." "If it swims and eats forage, you can pretty much catch it on a fly," said Brubakken. So much for the trout ...

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 ...

Northern pike have also been knocked back in Lake Spokane. Chuck Lee, a biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, said focused suppression efforts over the past four years have ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- Nathan Lafleur says it never entered his mind to keep the massive northern pike he caught Wednesday evening while fly fishing from shore along a shallow bay of Devils Lake.