Michigan’s pike resources are great enough to make it a pike destination state,” Bednar said. “Pike have just kind of gotten forgotten over the years." ...

NEAR GRAND RAPIDS -- Paul Nelson stopped in the snowy woods and looked around. "This is where we usually get lost," he said. Nelson and his partner, Liv Mostad-Jensen, both of Grand Rapids, were ...

Anglers and dark-house spearers on Mille Lacs Lake this winter will have northern pike regulations that continue to allow plentiful harvest of smaller pike from the lake, while continuing to protect ...

Mille Lacs Lake’s dark house northern pike spearing season ends at sunset on Sunday, Feb. 22, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said. “There’s been some confusion because an extended ice ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The return of northern pike spearing to Mille Lacs Lake for the first time in 32 years is generating a buzz among long-time spearers. It's also brought hope for resort owners whose ...

Getting to this point had taken some heavy lifting, but now we were sitting in the dark and staring into a large hole carved through 3 feet of ice. It provided a window into another world. Only the ...

Spear divers get expanded access to walleye, pike and lake trout starting in 2026 after the Natural Resource Commission ...

Currently, only inland lakes are open for catfish and northern pike spearing and bowfishing and no waters in eastern South Dakota are open to spearing or bowfishing for game fish. The Commission will ...