The fish turns to the fly, cocks its tail and attacks it in a vicious assault that bends my rod like a question mark. The twenty pound pike torpedoes across the flat, torturing my reel in the process.

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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Northern pike fishing is excellent at Williams Fork Reservoir, as Andy Yutzy can attest. Casting from a boat, he had already caught and released three smaller pike before hooking a monster last week ...

"I don't know if I heard something or what, but when I went back to pick up the fly again and started stripping it back in, there was a huge pike on the line," he said. "It was a very big pike." A few ...

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.