The number one rule for fall muskie fishing is: Go big or go home. When muskies are feeding on mature forage, oversized ...

During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...

Ever since he was a youngster, Mike Koepp has been a musky hunter. It all started one summer afternoon when Koepp, then 10, was fishing off a dock in Pewaukee Lake, not far from Milwaukee. “I’d caught ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS, ONTARIO – Up early on this lake in late August, steam rising from the still-warm water into the chilled air. The dock creaks slightly and in the middle distance a loon wails.

A hot-button subject in the world of fishing is the use of live bait. I’m talking about minnows, worms, leeches and all of the other critters that fishermen use to try to coax an unwary fish into ...

Battle lines are drawn again in Wisconsin over the hidebound issue of motorized back trolling for muskies. A groundswell of pressure has risen in the muskie hotbeds of Vilas and Oneida counties to ...