Near the peak of high water this month, I found myself on the Pend Oreille River with two awesomely efficient predators: The northern pike and Seth Burrill. Preparation is essential for being on the ...

Northern pike are vermin to Montana’s formerly pristine trout waters. But even native-minded coldwater fish biologists warmed to news of a fledgling fly fisherman who landed a record pike on April 30 ...

About half my life ago on a sizzling July afternoon, Jimmie Hammond and I paced the banks of the lake that protects Braeburn Country Club's No. 1 green up near Bissonnet. For two hours, we launched ...

With the cold finally setting in, many anglers have turned their attention to our predatory species, and this last week in ...

A large spinnerbait produced this big pike. While the thrill of hooking a fish is the most appealing element of sportfishing, very close in appeal is the element of solving a puzzle. What-should-I-do ...

I was looking forward to a day trip on the lower Flathead River last week – it’s the time of the year that smallmouth bass fishing really turns on. I had received reports a week earlier that the ...

This past week, I flipped open the lid of an old tackle box and in so doing triggered a wave of great fishing memories. One of my earliest from 23 years behind this desk is of a day on Gibbons Creek ...

One such angler is Rapala’s Dave Mower, who already has a lure-caught personal best of 30lb to his name. So, here, Dave details his five favourite pike lures for catching big stillwater pike – ...