A 6-inch sucker rigged on an HT Enterprises Polar tip-up for northern pike. / Joe Shead For average-sized northern pike, a lively 5- or 6-inch golden shiner or sucker is potent medicine.

ice anglers and spearers are gearing up for winter fishing action. For many, winter is a time to seek out the eager-to-bite northern pike. This will be the first ice fishing season of new northern ...

An Idaho angler who spends most of his free time fishing for northern ... up now to get daily updates in your inbox Francis said that on March 21 he embarked with his usual mindset: to catch a big ...

doubled up on 37-inch pike Thursday on the Montrose Horseshoe. ‘‘I had a good-sized northern explode on a big bucktail at shore when I was doing the figure 8,’’ he emailed. A figure 8 is a ...

When he finally lifted it up into the water column on a six-pound ... When the incredible northern pike surfaced and laid on its side, they netted it beside one of the canoes and paddled it ...

Northern Pike were detected. “It’s tricky because we do pick up Northern Pike in Banks Lake, but it could just be the DNA from Roosevelt,” Schultz said. Schultz explains that fish ...