In July of 2017, I was guiding a group of kayak bass anglers on Lake Wanahoo, a flood control reservoir in southeast Nebraska that was built in 2012. The lake is stocked with bass, panfish, blue ...

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 ...

Sticking a muskie on a fly is a challenge. Here are some tips from a veteran guide that can help put you in the game.

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 ...

Although some states like Kentucky do permit muskie fishing early in the season, most of the states in native muskie range close the season until after the fish are done spawning. Fishing can be good ...

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 ...

DULUTH — On land, Karen McTavish is a mild-mannered quilt shop owner serving customers with a bolt of fabric and a smile. On the water, McTavish turns into a muskie maniac, bitten by the esox bug ...

If you asked me point blank which is better as a game fish—muskie vs pike—I’m saying pike a thousand times over. This, of course, is just my opinion, but looks aside, the biggest difference between ...

Jul. 4—CLAYTON — When Derek Balmas, Franklinville, pulled a world-record setting 53.149-inch muskellunge out of the water near Clayton Nov. 8, he knew instantly that it was an extraordinary fish.

A strange, long and skinny muskie has been caught by a Minnesota man in a shallow water channel. Tayden George, 19, had been fishing for bass and panfish in a channel connecting Lakes Ida and Charley, ...