Tag: northern pike

“The setup is a fly-in only camp. They are the only outfitter on a lake that’s twenty five miles long and three miles wide! The only competition we’ll have are the spin casters and the damn eagles!” I said thanks but no thanks. A longtime fishing companion had just contacted me about joining in with a group for a fishing adventure, and I almost...

I just returned from an extraordinary fly fishing trip at Lake Athabasca, in northern Saskatchewan. Fishing with Trout Unlimited’s national communications director, Chris Hunt, out of Blackmur’s Athabasca Lodges, we caught more healthy northern pike on the fly than either of us could have imagined. Why more fly fishers do not respect and actively seek...