Sturgeon Lake is home to some excellent northern pike fishing. You will find good numbers of pike while targeting walleye here. If you fish the many bays here, you can put up some very good numbers for pike each day. There are some trophy pike here too.
Other Waters in This Area
If you are looking at some of the other lakes to target pike in the area, you have quite a few options. Most lakes will have pike in them and trophy fish are found throughout this entire area.
Press Lake
Press Lake is a large lake with more than 70 miles of shoreline, tons of bays, points, islands and more. With only one camp on this lake, you will have access to a lot of water all to yourself. Anglers enjoy excellent fishing for walleye, northern pike and smallmouth bass.
Savant Lake
Savant Lake is a huge lake with some awesome fishing available. It does not have public access so you need to fly in or one of the resorts has a drive-in service with a special off-road vehicle and trailer to get your group and your gear to the camp.
If you get to spend some time on this lake, you should enjoy it. There are huge numbers of fish in it, so once you figure out the better spots, you can catch a lot of fish. Anglers report 100 fish days per boat here quite frequently. On bad weather days, this lake can really get rough, however, there are plenty of places to get out of the rough water and still fish. With more than 400 miles of shoreline, depths down to 200 feet, tons of islands, so many bays and feeder streams flowing in and out, you have an outstanding fishery for northern pike, walleye and lake trout.
Watcomb Lake
Watcomb Lake is a good-sized lake that offers good fishing for a variety of fish. Most anglers come here for the walleye fishing, but you can also catch perch, lots of smallmouth bass and some big northern pike.
Sturgeon Lake Lodge is currently in charge of the campground and boat launch on this lake. Take a look at the Watcomb Campground and Launch page to learn more about getting access to this lake.
Wintering Lake
Wintering Lake is a decent-sized lake that offers good fishing for walleye, northern pike and perch. It is a good numbers lake with some big fish potential too.
Young Lake
Young Lake has one camp on the lake and it offers access to some very good fishing. Anglers catch walleye, northern pike and smallmouth bass. There are good numbers of fish with some big fish potential too.
Best Baits for Northern Pike
Northern pike are known for eating just about everything they can get the mouths on and there is definitely some truth to that. For the most part, if it swims, pike may eat it. There are some baits that definitely will catch more pike than others though. Spinners, crankbaits, spoons, swimbaits and soft plastics are some of the best lures for targeting pike. Live baits such as minnows and perch are great baits too.
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Best Rigs for Northern Pike
There are many different rigs you can use for northern pike, however, since pike are so aggressive, you really don’t need to use as many of them as you would if you were trying to get good at largemouth bass fishing. For most situations, you can keep it real simple with a jighead and a minnow or soft plastic bait. To learn about some of the rigs that you can use, take a look at our best rigs for northern pike page.
Best Techniques for Northern Pike
Anglers catch pike with many different techniques. Casting, trolling and drifting are most popular ways to target pike, but there are some other methods that also work well too.
To learn more, take a look at our best techniques for northern pike page.
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Our northern pike fishing section has tons of tips on the best lures, live baits, where to catch them and how to catch them.
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