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 ...

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.

"I stepped into this spot he was in and cast out this big pike fly I'd tied the night before," he said. "It was just big and black, probably 6 inches long." Cryder cast the heavy fly once, and just as ...

Fly fishing for northern pike is gaining more popularity across the Black Hills, according to Ryan Gabert, of Dakota Angler & Outfitter, because it gives local fishermen a new species to chase in a ...

Fly fishing for pike is becoming increasingly popular in the UK, and with the fantastic sport pike can provide on fly fishing tackle, it's not hard to see why. While many anglers still prefer to use ...

Anglers who follow the calendar, yearning for the next fly-fishing challenge, look ahead to ice off. When the ice thins and begins to recede on lakes and reservoirs, fly fishers get first shots at ...

The beauty of fishing is that no matter how good you become, or how much you think you know, you’re ultimately pitting yourself against a wild animal, and sometimes the extraordinary happens. Not ...