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 ...

Once early-summer water temperatures in the shallows reach about 70 F, big pike seem to disappear. In effect, they head to deeper, cooler water, suspending above or inside summer thermoclines, lying ...

"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 ...