When the weather forecast calls for multiple days of temperatures in the teens, most anglers know freshwater fishing is coming to an end. But just before water starts to lock up is actually one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A story elsewhere in this section – or website, if you’re reading online – reminded me of one of the things I love most about fishing. And, indeed, pretty much all things outdoors. Brad Dokken It’s ...

Right now Muskies are patrolling the weed edges like Lions on the Serengeti. Preditors all like a little cover to get close so they can spring the trap on their victims.....in the case of Muskies the ...

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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 ...

Wisconsin's 39th Annual National Championship Musky Open drew 1,146 anglers from 14 states, who caught and released 117 muskies in three days. The August 15 to 17 Eagle River, Wisconsin, tourney is a ...

BEMIDJI – This fish story could not have happened to a nicer young man, my great-nephew, Noah, who turned 13 this year. It was our family vacation 2022 in northern Minnesota, where I met up with my ...

Aug. 26—BEMIDJI — Ask any serious muskie angler, and they'll probably say that a 50-inch muskie is a fish of a lifetime. They'd be right, of course, but 13-year-old Noah Moss topped that benchmark ...