How to Fish for Northern Pike with a Jig and Minnow Hook a 4-inch minnow through the head, from the bottom to the top. Use a full(2- to 3-foot) but slow jigging motion and be ready for a strike on ...

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.

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 ...

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.

BWCAW angler Jake Skarloken pulled in a 30-pound, 47-inch northern but forgot the photo that could have made it a Minnesota catch-and-release record.

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.

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 ...

Mike Matuk caught an odd northern pike at the end of July that led to questions on silver pike and possibly Furunculosis, all adding up to an odd Fish of the Week.