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Missoula's Neal Cote has perfected fly-fishing techniques and his own brand of killer fly patterns to become a master of catching northern pike. Competing against scores of anglers using traditional, ...

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.

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 ...

Lynn Lake, Manitoba — Somewhere on that cedar-thick esker was a bull moose the guys had seen scampering skyward through trees and moss and away from a 16-foot aluminum boat that had invaded Pyta Lake ...

"I don't know if I heard something or what, but when I went back to pick up the fly again and started stripping it back in, there was a huge pike on the line," he said. "It was a very big pike." A few ...

BASALT – With the bounty of top-notch rivers here in the Roaring Fork Valley, there’s really no excuse not to go fly fishing. The trout fishing on the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers is truly ...

Competing against scores of anglers using traditional, time-honored pike tackle from plugs, spoons and spinners, and even the pike's favorite bait - smelt, Cote, typically the lone fly-fisherman in ...

Dec. 6—BEMIDJI — 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.