There’s rarely a warning. Not with pike. When a striped bass attacks a topwater fly, you often see a boil or a swirl before the toilet flushes. Snakeheads will track a foam frog and wake the surface ...

"Pike can eat fish up to 10 or 12 inches long," Cryder said. "My biggest streamers were 1½ or 2 inches long." So Cryder did what he often does when faced with a problem: He mulled it over in his mind, ...