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 ...

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 ...

Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources has done surveys on muskies on Lake Miltona for years, but additional work that started in the spring of 2019 should paint a clearer picture of how the ...

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 ...

Minnesota muskies have been known at times to devour extra-large prey, like the 18.9-inch white sucker that researchers retrieved this spring from the stomach of a 50-inch muskie on Shamineau Lake ...

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 ...

State scientists Shawn Good and Dave Gibson prepare a muskie for surgery in October. Photo by Kate Kampner/CNS Kate Kampner is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont ...

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 ...

Seventy years ago this month, Leech Lake muskies went crazy. Until that time, the big silvery fish barely gained notice from most of the lake’s anglers. Instead, walleyes were the lake’s major ...

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