The Upper Peninsula is a great place to land a Northern Pike and the Michigan Sportsman Magazine pointed that fact out recently.
The Northern Pike, which can grow to be quite large, is a fierce fighting fish once it's hooked. It's a popular game fish for anglers throughout the U.P. and beyond.
Excerpt: "The best places to catch (northern) pike are lakes and bays connected to the Great Lakes," said Bill Zigler, Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist.
In the Upper Peninsula, that means looking for northerns in any of the estimated 4,300 inland lakes and countless bays fed by the frigid waters of Lake Superior. With an abundance of small fish, shallow weed beds and submersible vegetation, smaller lakes provide perfect pike habitat.
To read the rest of the article, including a county-by-county breakdown, go here.
Source: Michigan Sportsman Magazine
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