Sam Becker of Illinois established the Wisconsin live release muskellunge record with a 57-inch-long fish caught in Oconto ...

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When the weather forecast calls for multiple days of temperatures in the teens, most anglers know freshwater fishing is coming to an end. But just before water starts to lock up is actually one of the ...

Fishing on the Chippewa Flowage in northwestern Wisconsin on Sept. 27 during day two of a two-day qualifier for the Professional Musky Tournament Trail championship later this month, the Raczynskis ...

DULUTH — On land, Karen McTavish is a mild-mannered quilt shop owner serving customers with a bolt of fabric and a smile. On the water, McTavish turns into a muskie maniac, bitten by the esox bug ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chicago Muskie Expo comes to our area this weekend. I lovingly call this show the “testosterone show,” because of the army of huge, bearded men you’ll see walking the aisles of the Kane ...

Muskie Joe Stamper was a living legend along the tree-lined banks of Kentucky’s Kinniconick Creek. For nearly 50 years, the dedicated angler pursued the muskies that this stream is famed for. He was ...

Imagine catching a trophy fish and celebrating with a mount of your big catch on the wall, but only after you actually released the fish back into the lake. That's happening now in Wisconsin's ...

Northwoods angler Colin Crawford with a musky he caught and released, a tradition that started in Wisconsin because of Muskies, Inc., a non-profit group of musky anglers, in the 1990s. There’s no ...