The giant northern pike dwarfed any fish I had ever seen. 43.25" long. 18 pounds, 2 ounces. And not only was it big, I actually caught the same fish on two separate lines. True story.

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For average-sized northern pike, a lively 5- or 6-inch golden shiner or sucker is potent medicine. There are a number of ways to rig up. I like to use a pre-rigged setup.

For Grant Prokop, owner of Thousand Lakes Sporting Goods in Grand Rapids, Minnesota’s walleye and northern pike fishing opener transcends every other day. “It’s a different pulse and a ...

Ron's big pike is of a 43.5 inch long northern pike weighing over 23 pounds. Now that is a world class fish! So, whether you love or hate northern pike, they are in our local lakes- forever.

If you’re using small lures intended for a different target and lighter line, a pike will cut you off before you can blink. But if you’re throwing the right kind of northern pike bait from a proper ...

Our largest minnow of the day, about a 7-inch-long sucker, got taken by a 15-inch northern. Moss, who spent his career in wildlife, dispensed a pearl of wisdom that applies to all wild things ...

Northern pikeminnow consume millions of young salmon and steelhead each year. Since 1990, anglers paid through the program have removed more than 5.4 million pikeminnow from the Columbia and Snake ...

Dan Bernstein caught and released a thick 32-inch northern pike Thursday afternoon at Northerly Island after his midday shift as a host on The Score. Things came unhooked after that.

A northern pike reacts to an underwater camera in a southern Saskatchewan lake, in Canada, in this Dec. 27, 2023, video. ... Makes me glad I'm not a minnow. Have You Seen This?