But you can’t go wrong with the HT Enterprises Polar tip-up. For average-sized northern pike, a lively 5- or 6-inch golden shiner or sucker is potent medicine. There are a number of ways to rig up.

A 6-inch sucker rigged on an HT Enterprises Polar tip-up for northern pike. / Joe Shead For average-sized northern pike, a lively 5- or 6-inch golden shiner or sucker is potent medicine.

A microsatellite genomic DNA analysis, a tagging study, and angler recapture information were used to assess the level of reproductive isolation and test the hypothesis of natal-site fidelity as a ...