Dogged determination is a hallmark of every great angler. It’s the inclination to pursue “the one” year after year, and to go fishing when the conditions keep everyone else off the water. It’s also ...

Victor Gelman caught a 45-pound muskie on the New Jersey side of Greenwood Lake in February. The huge fish is a pending state record.

One. I cast a jerkbait. Nine inches long, 3 ounces, and with two 3/0 treble hooks, the lure sails 40 yards before it belly-flops on the lake surface. I point the rod at the water, reel in the slack, ...

The state record muskie is mounted on a wall at the Piedmont Lake Marina Joe Lykins, who died in 1985, caught the fish in 1972. Will the record ever be broken? The 4-foot-long mounted fish, with a ...

LAKE NEBAGAMON, Wis. — Jon Kopetzky says their fishing group was never expecting to catch a giant muskie on a nice June morning trolling along Wisconsin’s South Shore of Lake Superior, a spot where ...