Early Northern Pike Ice Fishing

Ice Team
If there’s a fish species that gets fired up for cold water, it’s the northern pike. Especially big ones, with distance between the eyeballs. If you’re a little fish, a big pike is your worst nightmare–but if you are an ice angler, a big pike can be your favorite dance partner.
Big pike are active [...]

Early Northern Pike Ice Fishing

Ice Team
If there’s a fish species that gets fired up for cold water, it’s the northern pike. Especially big ones, with distance between the eyeballs. If you’re a little fish, a big pike is your worst nightmare–but if you are an ice angler, a big pike can be your favorite dance partner.
Big pike are active [...]

Ice Spearing

By Doug Leier
It’s December, and if there’s a transition time for outdoor activities, this is it.
Deer gun season has closed, and while muzzleloader deer and many upland game seasons are winding down, another season has opened.
The fishing community in 2001 marked the opening of managed ice spearing in 30 North Dakota waters. Whether you agree [...]

Northern Pike Ice Fishing Tips

By Nick Simonson
If you are tired of finicky panfish or walleye with lockjaw and the slow bite that the area has been experiencing throughout this unstable portion of the winter, turn to an old favorite to heat up the action on the ice.
One of the most exciting fish to catch in our area is the [...]

Trophy Northern Pike Fishing in Early Winter

Ice Team
If there’s a fish species that gets fired up for cold water, it’s the northern pike. Especially big ones, with distance between the eyeballs. If you’re a little fish, a big pike is your worst nightmare—but if you are an ice angler, a big pike can be your favorite dance partner.
Trophy pike are active [...]

Catching Big Pike During the Late Winter – Trophy Northern Pike Fishing

By Karl Kleman
You can take ‘em at other times, but Power Stick Karl Kleman likes; Late Winter for Monster Pike.
One person’s complaint is another person’s call to action. Very early in his ice-fishing days, Power Stick Karl Kleman picked up on a familiar refrain coming from late winter panfish anglers.
“When the sunfish move up into [...]

Ice Fishing for Pike

By Jason Phillips
According to the weather forecast, March will begin with subzero temperatures which will extend the wait for the snow goose migration. We are in the midst of the spring snow goose hunting season but could be a month away from actually having huntable numbers of geese in the state! With an excess of [...]