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 — and hope for resort owners whose fortunes long have ...

Dark-house spearing of northern pike will be allowed at Mille Lacs Lake for the first time since the winter of 1982-83, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Anglers and spearers ...

On the afternoon of the last day of the year, I trudged across the lake and made a sizable hole in the ice. My goal: to attract just one northern pike good enough to throw the spear. It was a second ...

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 ...

WEST FARGO – Have you ever been darkhouse spearfishing for pike? It’s relatively new, compared with most outdoor recreation in North Dakota, having started a mere 25 years ago, but for those who have ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of North Dakota’s most recent expansion in fishing opportunity is darkhouse spearfishing. At least, it seems like it’s recent, but in checking the record, it was back in 2001 when the North Dakota ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you spend any time on the ice last winter, spearing in North Dakota? If you did, you were part of a record 4,328 participants who registered to darkhouse spearfish, an increase of nearly 1,000 ...