The NY Musky Expo in Celoron last weekend was especially exciting for visitors when the NYSDEC from Prendergast Point released baby musky into Chautauqua Lake as the show ended. Photo courtesy of ...

Apr. 28—For many anglers, musky fishing is the ultimate challenge. These elusive predators are known as the fish of a thousand casts because they require patience and persistance to catch. As an avid ...

About an hour earlier, Kieper and his buddy Guy Mittlestadt, who helps Kieper film and produce muskie fishing DVDs, picked me up at my motel. Before I arrived in Hayward I had seen photos of Kieper on ...

Anglers looking to tangle with big, toothy predators in fresh water would be hard pressed to find better targets than muskie and pike. The two game fish are closely related, and they inhabit some of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you asked me point blank which is better as a game fish—muskie vs pike—I’m saying pike a thousand times over. This, of course, is just my opinion, but looks aside, the biggest difference between ...

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 ...

Expert strategies for locating and catching post-spawn muskies from opening day through the spring fishing season. Learn the right water temps and conditions, the best lures, and how to extend this ...

We all have our weaknesses, and mine, which I explained to Sawyer County musky fishing guide Mike Cookas, is catching musky. I gave Mike Cookas a call in attempt to receive information on how to fish ...