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 ...

Despite the algae bloom on the lake’s surface, I could easily see the red-colored head of my fly and behind it the fly’s silver mylar tail. The fact that the fly was large didn’t hurt, but its size ...

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.

Local angler and fly tyer Dan McGuire will be hosting a fly-tying demonstration on Saturday, Jan. 13, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at East Rosebud Fly Shop. During the demonstration McGuire will be tying ...

I was a proper fair-weather angler last weekend, greeted with teeming rain when my alarm went off to go chase pike, so I kept the water- proofs dry and had a lie in. By the time the sun came out on ...