The first thing you’ll notice about Hayward Lakes in May and June? All across this northern Wisconsin region, nature is waking up. “May and June are when the area comes alive,” says Mindy Simons, ...

At the end of 12 days of fishing, much of it in weather that froze lines to rods and started the first ice of the season creeping out from the shores of Sawyer County lakes, Tony and his partner had ...

Longtime Wisconsin guide Jeff Van Remortel says the moon phase was in their favor on June 4, when he and a longtime client, Mike Jacoby, were out fishing for muskies in Green Bay. The action had been ...

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 ...

Guide Jeff Van Remortel’s 56-inch Green Bay giant sets a new Wisconsin catch-and-release record, but with a positive trend toward more giant muskie being caught, the record may not last long. A new ...

This story, “The Twelve Days,” appeared in the September 1956 issue of Outdoor Life. A few minutes before midnight of October 29, 1955, Tony Burmek and his brother Fred set out from Milwaukee, ...

A new Wisconsin musky record has just been certified on Green Bay, but there’s already talk of that record being broken, possibly this year. On June 4th, 2025, longtime fishing guide Jeff Van Remortel ...