Northern Pike fishing tips to catching plenty of fish. Northern pike are another south dakota fish I love to catch. I’ve always found the late summer pike fishing and the fall pike fishing to be the biggest fish and the best northern pike fishing of the year. With these tips you will catch plenty of fish in the fall and the rest of the year. Northern pike are a freshwater fish and are found in most midwestern lakes and rivers. Lol, pike will teach you how to reel, big fish, quick!

Our fish house was hard to move as it wasn’t a portable ice fishing shelter so we pretty much left it in the same place most winters so I went back to the place I’d been before and tried again. This time the results were much different. I caught my 3 northern limit in about a half an hour and all were over 6 pounds. I was much happier but it could have been luck so I went back three more days in a row. Big smelt and juice, bigger northerns, small smelt and juice, smaller northerns. It was the size making the difference.

Now I was smart enough to stock up on huge smelt whenever I found them, summer or winter. They keep in the freezer very well. I would put them into freezer bags with just enough in each bag so they lay flat instead of freezing ito a huge frozen mess thats impossible to get apart. If you’re really ambitious you can freeze them flat, on a cookie sheet then bag them after they are frozen.