Herring replace smelt at local bait shops Duluth-area bait shops are finding a way around a new regulation that prohibits the use of smelt from Lake Superior as bait. The ruling went into effect ...

The 5 best lures for catching northern pike—spoons, spinners, crankbaits, jerkbaits, and live suckers continue to dominate for aggressive pike.

PIERRE | Lake Oahe and many other Western South Dakota waterways are experiencing a renaissance in terms of producing trophy northern pike.

This smelt isn't bait - it ate the bait BAUDETTE, Minn. -- Spend enough time outdoors, and you're going to run across some unusual stuff. Such was the case Jan. 24, when a friend and I spent the ...

Submitted photoRich Lester with his lunker northern. Rich Lester, of Manlius, caught this 59- inch, 48 lb., northern pike May 28 on Sullivan lake in Northern Quebec on a 9-inch, smelt "dead bait".

Northern pike were hitting around the point north of English Lake in Indiana, and in Illinois they were hitting east of Momence and below the Kankakee and Wilmington dams.

A fisherman caught a 31-pound northern pike that is nearly 4 feet long while ice fishing on Hayden Lake, Idaho Fish and Game said. It didn’t break state record.

By Doug Fletcher,Sun Journal News Staff Northern pike have invaded Sebago Lake and are threatening the waterway’s famed landlocked salmon fishery.“Catch and kill as many pike as you can ...