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 ...

There’s a new world-record muskie on the books. Earlier this year, the International Game Fish Association certified Derek Balmas’ 53.15-inch muskie as the new all-tackle length record for the species ...

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 ...

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 ...

Appearance is the only difference between the Great Lakes spotted muskie and muskies that are found throughout Wisconsin.

I’m not alone in believing FFS could doom muskie fishing, and perhaps other types of fishing, especially crappie fishing. “Panfishing,’’ which includes crappie fishing, is Minnesota’s most popular ...

Freshwater muskellunge — often called “the fish of ten thousand casts” — sits at the very top of the angling world. For those ...

Travis Kahlbaugh, Grand Forks, shared this story of a big muskie he caught May 29 while fishing walleyes on Lake Bemidji: I was fishing for walleyes with 6-pound monofilament line and a silver Rapala ...

Wisconsin's catch-and-release muskie record was broken for a third time in 2025 by Sam Becker, who caught his 57-inch muskie ...

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 ...

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 ...