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 ...

It seems like a simple recipe, really. Joe Bucher — longtime host of “Fishing with Joe Bucher” and a 2002 Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame inductee — believes there are just three ingredients to ...

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 ...

Two things were obvious: the muskie following my lure was a giant, and it was coming in hot—its focus completely on my bucktail spinner. I swung the bait into a wide turn at boatside and then hung it ...

Tournament champions, the father-son team of Brandon and Gavin Guthrie, and Joe Dancho, landed three giant Chautauqua Lake muskies. The Guthries are shown here with their largest musky, a 45-inch ...

Katia Rivers, Muskies Inc. Chapter 69 (New York) “Big Baller” musky tournament director, will be at the Prendergast Boat Launch registration site Saturday to kick off the competition from 6:30-7:30 ...

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 ...

There are fish that people like to catch, and then there is the musky — a long, heavy, toothy, unpredictable apex predator that fuels obsessions, stories and lifelong pursuits. Renowned as the fish of ...