Learn the live bait rig that consistently beats artificial lures for fall muskies. Expert rigging, setup, and hookset tips ...

Full disclosure: I am not an expert muskie angler. If anything, muskies are the bane of my existence as a fisherman. That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t have a deep appreciation for them as a ...

Catching musky is hard. They’re evasive fish that can be difficult to find, so trying to hook into one from kayak—which has limited range—probably seems impossible to most anglers. But I prefer to ...

BRAINERD, Minn. — “If you’re a very bad person in this life,” hall of fame angler Al Lindner once told me, “your punishment will be casting to muskies for the rest of eternity.” Admittedly, he said ...

It has been a banner musky fishing season for Vance Kaloz. Since the season opened in late May on New York’s Chautauqua Lake, where he spends most of his fishing time running charters for Muddy Creek ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Muskie fishing has been part of Minnesota's outdoor culture since the advent of the rod and reel. In year's past, only a small percentage of anglers targeted these monsters of the ...

HAYWARD - Once upon a time, an Illinois resident with a passion for musky fishing in northern Wisconsin lost his favorite rod and reel. Kerplunk, it went, right over the side of his boat. Four days ...

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Time to start putting some miles on that reel, because June 1 is opening day for the fish of 10,000 casts, and New York state’s largest freshwater sportfish—the fearsome muskellunge. That opening date ...

HAYWARD - Hayward is home to a larger-than-life muskellunge at the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame. And it's not uncommon for anglers in the area to produce stories that rival the proportions of the ...