This lure’s metal lip not only holds up to whacking hard bottom, but can be tweaked so the bait’s action matches the musky’s mood. Musky lures are so important because, well, muskies are moody.

It seems like a simple recipe, really. Joe Bucher — longtime host of “Fishing with Joe Bucher” and a 2002 Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame inductee — believes there are just three ingredients to ...

Fisheries biologists began cross-breeding muskies and northern pike back in the mid-1960s. The process produces a hybrid predator with a voracious appetite for baitfish that can grow to staggering ...

The muskie is the top predator in the local fish chain. Muskies are bigger, stronger and scare the heck out of just about any other fish they swim across. Which is why the angler who wishes to do ...