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.

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 ...

Daniel Bevevino, 42, caught a 45-inch northern pike while ice fishing in a remote ... He placed a 6-inch shiner on a tip-up in about 4 feet of water and waited for the fish to bite. “ ...

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 ...