When you are standing on an ice sheet that’s 36 inches thick, it seems absurd to think that spring is in the air. But it was. And I could feel it. It was the last week of March, and Pete Palony and I ...

The tools of the trade: A freshly speared northern pike alongside the decoy and spear used for the catch. / Joe Shead The sleek pike burst into view from some unknown weedbed and slashed at the 8-inch ...

All fish are predators, but northern pike come dressed for the part—needle teeth, vacant eyes, thick slime, serpentine shape—which is part of what make pike fishing so much fun. Their primeval ...