If you're not fishing for early-season muskies, you’re missing out on a great opportunity—and you're hardly alone. With prime muskie fishing typically pegged for mid-summer and early fall, lots of ...

MORSON, Ont. -- We'd trolled the equivalent of 10,000 casts with only a couple of missed strikes and a full plate of tasty Lake of the Woods scenery to show for our efforts. For one solid day, we'd ...

Spring means fishing the flats in 1 to 5 feet of water. If he's casting, Edquist likes muskie lures such as Rad Dogs, Showgirls and smaller crankbaits such as 6-inch Jakes. He prefers to troll with ...

There may still be snow on the ground and Christmas is less than a week away, but this is also a great time to fish for ...

What’s probably the rarest game fish in Northwest Montana? I’ll bet that 99% of local fishermen can’t answer that question correctly. Give up? It’s probably the tiger muskie. Tiger muskies are only ...

When musky season opened May 26 in Wisconsin waters north of State Highway 10, a small but growing number of anglers tried to land a lunker with fly fishing equipment. "Fly fishing for big esocids - ...

Most of my fishing energy over the last seven years has been devoted to finding and occasionally catching Minnesota's most elusive and frustratingly alluring game fish, the muskellunge. Thankfully, my ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Lake Erie walleye, yellow perch and smallmouth bass fishing is in the spotlight right now along Ohio’s Lake Erie shoreline, but muskie anglers are not forgotten by the Ohio ...

Muskie fishing opens in Minnesota this weekend, but excitement for the season's first days isn't what it once was. That's because the state's lakes and rivers hold fewer muskies than they did a decade ...

‘Tis the season to catch toothy critters — muskellunge. Years of chasing muskies around have taught me and others many things, but the one thing that most can agree on: muskies are hard to catch ...

Derek Balmas was fishing with his friend Mike Muehelemann (left) when he landed the record muskie. There’s a new world-record muskie on the books. Earlier this year, the International Game Fish ...