Once early-summer water temperatures in the shallows reach about 70 F, big pike seem to disappear. In effect, they head to deeper, cooler water, suspending above or inside summer thermoclines, lying ...

Many anglers treat northern pike like ugly step sisters. They're only fish caught by accident while fishing for the real Cinderellas -- muskies, bass, and walleyes. Don't try to convince fishing ...

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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 ...

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, ...

A wet, disappointing spring gave way eventually to a fine summer of fishing along the upper coast. Barring tropical weather, always a possibility through the warm-water months, trout and redfish ...

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