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 ...

I joined Michel on two such lakes, Pewaukee and Oconomowoc in Waukesha County, for two late season muskie outings in November. Late fall is a time when fish go on a feeding binge to put on weight for ...

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 ...

There’s a theory in the north that muskies go on feeding sprees in late autumn, and Tony is a strong supporter of this idea. But, as he says, “Just try to get the general public out on those lakes in ...

Muskies are known as the fish of 10,000 casts because they have a reputation for being finicky feeders. They are also known to follow lures to the boat, rather than striking them. It's always exiting ...

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 ...

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 ...