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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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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?

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 ...

And flies with more Mylar, sparkle, and glitz than a Junior Miss pageant. But he knows that for giant Canada northern pike, the simplest fishing lure can be the most effective. When I visited Cree ...

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 ...

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.