Dan Bernstein caught and released a thick 32-inch northern pike Thursday afternoon at Northerly Island after his midday shift as a host on The Score. Things came unhooked after that.

BISMARCK -- The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is raising the statewide daily northern pike limit to five effective April 1, the start of the state's 2012-2014 fishing proclamation period.

Northern pike are starting to make their way up roadside ditches and into wetlands to spawn. On a regular patrol of marshes at Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve in Suamico, Brown County Program and ...