Northern pike might be closely related to muskies, but they’re not muskies. They have very different feeding habits. They exhibit different predatory behaviors. Pike are also smaller. Yet despite this ...

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 ...

Ask just about any angler the top 10 places they hope to fish someday, and you can bet that Alaska is going to make that list. Alaska has a very wide variety of fishing opportunities, and fantastic ...

I guided at The Ridge Lodge this summer. With years of guiding under my belt, it stood out as one of the best Alaskan lodges I've experienced. This is Part 2 on The Ridge Lodge, and fly fishing in ...

Fly fishing for pike has been around for a few years now, with many anglers targeting big waters like Chew Valley Lake.

Fly fishing for pike is becoming increasingly popular in the UK, and with the fantastic sport pike can provide on fly fishing tackle, it's not hard to see why. While many anglers still prefer to use ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a filmmaker & biologist covering conservation & outdoor topics. As the pontoons of the twin engine Otter break the surface ...

DULUTH, Minn. - Jim Blauch sent the orange and yellow popper toward a rocky point off the end of an island on this small lake. The fly landed lightly just inches from a rock protruding from the water.

In the mid-1970s, Bill Morrison was a teenager who read about fly fishing in Field & Stream magazine. He borrowed his grandfather's fiberglass fly rod and bought some popper bugs at Security Sporting ...

We coached separate teams down there, saw one another during and after games, compared notes, umpires, coaches, idiot parents; whose teams were breaking up, who had a good catcher, pitcher, etc., that ...