Full disclosure: I am not an expert muskie angler. If anything, muskies are the bane of my existence as a fisherman. That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t have a deep appreciation for them as a ...

Inland musky season opens Thursday, but it will be two more weeks before musky is fair game in Great Lakes waters. Key contests are going on this weekend in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. National ...

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

Anglers in New York can start chasing the ‘fish of 10,000 casts’ next week. Muskie season for inland waters opens June 1 and runs to Nov. 30. For the Great Lakes, their tributaries, Niagara River and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get ready to fish for muskellunge! The fishing seasons for muskellunge begin on June 1 for inland waters and June 15 for the Great Lakes waters and their tributaries (Lake Erie, Upper Niagara River, ...

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

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 ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has announced start dates for this year's muskellunge, or muskie, fishing season. Anglers can start fishing for muskies on inland waters on June 1.