This lure’s metal lip not only holds up to whacking hard bottom, but can be tweaked so the bait’s action matches the musky’s mood. Musky lures are so important because, well, muskies are moody.

Muskies are the fish of 10,000 casts. Catching one is great, but the diehard muskie nut gets excited just seeing one follow the lure. To catch a muskie, the odds are in your favor during the fall. So ...

Musky. The name alone elicits a variety of reactions from anglers, some good, and some painful. However you feel about musky, there’s no denying their appeal as a top-tier freshwater sportfish that ...

PRESQUE ISLE – Six times I’ve shared my cedar-strip rowboat with Scott Hassett for the Bob Ellis Row-Trolling Classic muskie tournament, and six times we’ve towed our flotilla of lures from the ...

Ever since he was a youngster, Mike Koepp has been a musky hunter. It all started one summer afternoon when Koepp, then 10, was fishing off a dock in Pewaukee Lake, not far from Milwaukee. “I’d caught ...

The Lower Wisconsin River from the dam at Prairie du Sac to the “Trestles” just past the Highway 12 Bridge is well worth fishing for muskies this time of year. The activity on the river and number of ...

Foot-long jerk baits are flying through the air again on Minnesota lakes, thrown by muskie anglers happy to be back in season. This year's opening day arrived Saturday, the earliest possible date ...

LONGVILLE, MINN. - In the end, fishing is about seasons, and each season is segmented, one part from another. June, July and August are summer months. But to a fisherman, no two are the same. Days are ...