Derek Balmas was fishing with his friend Mike Muehelemann (left) when he landed the record muskie. There’s a new world-record muskie on the books. Earlier this year, the International Game Fish ...

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 ...

Recently, I launched my boat on the lower Allegheny River at a spot popular with muskie anglers. Despite the river being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jul. 4—CLAYTON — When Derek Balmas, Franklinville, pulled a world-record setting 53.149-inch muskellunge out of the water near Clayton Nov. 8, he knew instantly that it was an extraordinary fish.

Known as the fish of 10,000 casts, muskies are not easy to catch. Muskies are the apex predator of freshwater fishing. These toothy creatures, which reach lengths of 60 inches and can top out at over ...

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 ...

State scientists Shawn Good and Dave Gibson prepare a muskie for surgery in October. Photo by Kate Kampner/CNS Kate Kampner is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont ...

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 ...

Aug. 26—BEMIDJI — Ask any serious muskie angler, and they'll probably say that a 50-inch muskie is a fish of a lifetime. They'd be right, of course, but 13-year-old Noah Moss topped that benchmark ...

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 ...