Anglers looking to tangle with big, toothy predators in fresh water would be hard pressed to find better targets than muskie and pike. The two game fish are closely related, and they inhabit some of ...

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 ...

St. Louis River muskie anglers learned something fascinating this past week about the fish they chase all summer: Not all of them stay in the river. Of 60 muskies that have been fitted with ...

The term “up the creek” has a lot of applications in life and is typically used in combination with some sort of unpleasant situation. But for the muskie angler, as winter grudgingly gives way to ...

Big tiger muskies are biting in Mayfield and Merwin Lakes, and will continue to bite well all summer. Photo provided by Mike West It is kind of like bass fishing, but for much bigger fish. Sterile ...

The statewide fishing season for muskellunge opened on May 27 in most of the state, except for the following waters: Lake Erie, the Upper Niagara and Lower Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St.

For as long as I can remember, there have been stories about an angler hooking into a monster muskie while fishing for pan fish. The story gets better each year, and while the dates and names may ...

Two things were obvious: the muskie following my lure was a giant, and it was coming in hot—its focus completely on my bucktail spinner. I swung the bait into a wide turn at boatside and then hung it ...