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.

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 ...

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Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing. About a month ago I wrote a column about a wonderful July morning in my fishing boat, ...

Big gravel pits can look vast and uninviting at first glance, but don’t let that fool you. They hold some of the best pike fishing in the country if you approach them in the right way. Success here ...

There's something exciting about fishing for big predatory fish with sharp teeth, which is why so many anglers enjoy 'piking' every year between the months of October and March (the pike season). Pike ...