A fishing guide in New York endured a challenging day when taking two fishermen out ice fishing on a lake in the Indian River chain.

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 ...

Lorenson had two anglers with him that day, Jim Logan, of Tarrytown, and Shannon Tierney-Addis, of Cortlandt Manor. He ...

Muskie fishing demands both mental grit and physical endurance. Hours of casting and retrieving—at times with lures measured in pounds, not ounces—push both anglers and gear to their absolute limits.

The 2026 New York Musky Expo, held Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel in Celoron, wasn’t just another winter ...

Anglers can begin fishing for muskellunge June 3, in Minnesota – a state well known as a muskie fishing destination, according to the Department of Natural Resources. While committed muskie anglers ...

The first time I saw a musky, I was about 6, fishing with my dad in northern Wisconsin. Nervously peering over the edge of the boat, it seemed that fish was almost as long as I was tall. It had a ...

Catching musky is hard. They’re evasive fish that can be difficult to find, so trying to hook into one from kayak—which has limited range—probably seems impossible to most anglers. But I prefer to ...

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 ...

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 ...