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 ...

The small Upper Peninsula town of Curtis is all about fishing. Especially when it comes to fishing northern pike. North of the Mighty Mac and sandwiched between the expansive Manistique Lakes is ...

It is Saturday and here I am slaving away writing a column for next Thursday’s paper. I am sitting on the deck of my cabin on Crystal and Lavon Lakes in the Thompson Chain of Lakes. It is about 70 ...

Northern pike, chain pickerel, and muskies are all members of the same family. And if we were comparing them to the porridge in “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” pike fishing would be “just right.” ...

The last week or so brought sharp reminders of the wonder of Chicago fishing in the fall — from the big ones to the odd ones ...

When a fish finally made its way to Zach and Mike Nunemacher’s ice fishing hole, they knew it was a big one. The fish had made “several good runs,” but the fishermen’s first attempt to reel it ...

After our guide cut the outboard, I grabbed my fly rod, stepped up to the bow deck, and surveyed the scene. It had been a long, exhausting journey from my home in New York to way-way-way-northern ...

Anglers looking to tangle with big, toothy predators in fresh water would be hard pressed to find better targets than muskie and pike. The two game fish are closely related, and they inhabit some of ...

Leslie Slater was kayak fishing with her husband and kids in Colebrook, Conn., recently when she landed a Northern pike that tied a 40-year-old state record. The sharp-toothed pike, caught in West ...

With only 10 minutes left on the final day of his fishing trip, an Illinois teen hooked into a fish of a lifetime and wound up with a state record in Minnesota. Brecken Kobylecky, 15, of Geneva was ...