After sawing a wide rectangle into the ice, a person holds a fish spear at the ready while looking through the water, past a small decoy meant to lure northern pike into range. A well-placed throw ...

Jan. 20—NEW LONDON — Modern wheelhouses, electronics and even social media have brought dramatic changes to ice fishing, but the sport of spearing fish through the ice has largely remained immune to ...

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 from ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has added Carlson Lakes in Ward County, Gravel Lake in Rolette County and West Napoleon Lake in Logan County to the list of waters open to spearing this ...

This weekend is your opportunity to take your kids fishing anywhere in Minnesota, for free! No license is required, thanks to the DNR. With cold temps in the forecast, another popular angling sport ...

RAND RAPIDS -- It's 13 below zero outside. The ice on this lake north of Grand Rapids is expanding with metallic ricochets. The sound is like someone flapping huge sheets of aluminum. But in his ...

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 ...

COHASSET -- Mike Best of Deer River calls it the fish that got him "addicted" to spearing northern pike. And he didn't even spear it himself. He was just a kid. "My dad speared a 20-pound, 9-ounce ...

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 ...

I am often amazed at the raw pure connection to the outdoors enjoyed by many of my friends and co-workers. When the temperature drops and the ice begins to form, it doesn’t signal the end to spending ...

Dec. 16—BISMARCK — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department requires darkhouse spearing participants to possess a valid fishing license (age 16 and older) and first register on the Game and Fish ...