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• Landers: Efforts underway to remove northern pike

  April 11, 2013 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 Gillnets have removed about 4,000 northern pike from the Box Canyon Reservoir portion of the Pend Oreille River in the second season of efforts to suppress the non-native species and … 1

• Landers: Efforts underway to remove northern pike

  April 10, 2013 in Sports Gillnets have removed about 4,000 northern pike from the Box Canyon Reservoir portion of the Pend Oreille River in the second season of efforts to suppress the non-native species and … 2

• Pike group angles for lunkers, laughs

  March 31, 2013 in Outdoors on Page C12 The North Idaho Pike Association (northidahopike.com) has scheduled eight club tournaments this season starting in April at area pike waters, including the group’s favorite venue at Noxon Reservoir in Montana, …

• Pend Oreille River pike thinning continues

  May 6, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 The official crackdown on invasive northern pike in the Pend Oreille River behind Box Canyon is in its last stages for this season. A late-April survey indicated gillnets deployed by … 1

• Bounty on the rise for pike

  April 12, 2012 in Sports on Page K4 Spoons, spinners, hooks, flies, baits and bobbers of all sizes hang like Christmas decorations in a window of the Kalispel Tribe’s fisheries office. “Every one of those lures has come …

• Gillnets set to remove 5,700 northern pike from Pend Oreille River

  April 8, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 The gillnets in the Pend Oreille River were catching as much attention as fish last week. Four workers in two boats were in their third week of 10- to 12-hour … 5

• Landers: Officials work to reduce Pend Oreille River pike

  March 29, 2012 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 Even though ice still lingers in a few sloughs, Pend Oreille River northern pike are feeling the heat. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Kalispell Tribe announced their … 12

• Biologists ponder options for PDO River pike boom

  April 17, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 The northern pike explosion in the Pend Oreille River in the past seven years has spawned excitement for fishermen and a major headache for biologists. The Washington Department of Fish … 2

• Pike prompt three surveys on PDO River

  April 17, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C9 Three northern pike studies that involve gillnetting fish are scheduled this spring on the Pend Oreille River by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Kalispel Tribe. The …

• Good news, bad news for pike fishing

  April 14, 2011 in Outdoors, Sports on Page K11 Pend Oreille River northern pike are Washington’s big boom fishey. But fish managers say they’re headed for a bust if something isn’t done. Fishing for pike into the 20-pound range …