The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness spanning northeast Minnesota and southern Ontario has been a haven for generations of outdoorsmen. This includes Jacob Skorloken, who caught one of the ...

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.

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DULUTH -- The big silver-phase northern pike that Mark Plumley caught this past week on Snowbank Lake near Ely. Minn., won't be an official state record, according to Department of Natural Resources ...

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 ...

"Pike can eat fish up to 10 or 12 inches long," Cryder said. "My biggest streamers were 1½ or 2 inches long." So Cryder did what he often does when faced with a problem: He mulled it over in his mind, ...

2/20: Jeff Makela, of Superior, caught this 28-inch native brown trout from a small spring pond in Bayfield County. It was caught July 19, 2025, after a morning rain storm. "I hope to share the story ...