The Muskie Junkie: An Angler’s Quest to Catch His First Muskie One. I cast a jerkbait. Nine inches long, 3 ounces, and with two 3/0 treble hooks, the lure sails 40 yards before it belly-flops on the ...

Sam Becker of Illinois established the Wisconsin live release muskellunge record with a 57-inch-long fish caught in Oconto ...

While the muskie fishing season remains months away, organizers of the expo at the Kane County Fairgrounds did their best to stoke the fires of those looking for new equipment, the best muskie ...

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 ...

Imagine catching a trophy fish and celebrating with a mount of your big catch on the wall, but only after you actually released the fish back into the lake. That's happening now in Wisconsin's ...

The first time I saw a musky, I was about 6, fishing with my dad in northern Wisconsin. Nervously peering over the edge of the boat, it seemed that fish was almost as long as I was tall. It had a ...

When Benjamin Knutson's fishing rod bent double recently on Minnesota’s Mille Lacs Lake, “I knew right away,” he said. “This was the one I was hunting for; it was her!” The muskie measured 56.5 inches ...

In a sport in which size really does matter, Ben Knutson has raised the bar to an almost unbelievable level. On November 25, 2020, Knutson, of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, caught two 50-pound ...

It was Saturday morning, Mar. 19, and Luke King, 27, was up early to cast for muskies on his beloved Little Kanawha River in Braxton County West Virginia. “I headed to a shoreline place about two ...

Freeze-up was a couple of weeks away when Josh Stevenson and I launched his boat recently, looking for a muskie. Tricking one of these toothy behemoths into munching a lure or bait would, we knew, end ...

One. I cast a jerkbait. Nine inches long, 3 ounces, and with two 3/0 treble hooks, the lure sails 40 yards before it belly-flops on the lake surface. I point the rod at the water, reel in the slack, ...