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.

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 ...

All fish are predators, but northern pike come dressed for the part—needle teeth, vacant eyes, thick slime, serpentine shape—which is part of what make pike fishing so much fun. Their primeval ...

Kelson Hickman, 13, of Great Falls caught this 37 1 / 2-inch, 14-pound Northern Pike on Saturday, Aug. 2, at Pishkun Reservoir. He was using a 6 weight St. Croix fly rod on 5X mono tippet with a fly ...

After mowing the lawn, putting in some of the garden and scrubbing the kitchen and bathroom floors, I decided that I needed to go fishing. I really didn't have the time or the yen to go to the Bighorn ...

Fly fishing is no longer just a way to spend a day on an exclusive chalkstream trying to catch trout. In recent years more ...

Dec. 6—BEMIDJI — 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.