Northwoods angler Colin Crawford with a musky he caught and released, a tradition that started in Wisconsin because of Muskies, Inc., a non-profit group of musky anglers, in the 1990s. There’s no ...

A few minutes before midnight of October 29, 1955, Tony Burmek and his brother Fred set out from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a trip that produced one of the most incredible catches of muskellunge in the ...

A new Wisconsin musky record has just been certified on Green Bay, but there’s already talk of that record being broken, possibly this year. On June 4th, 2025, longtime fishing guide Jeff Van Remortel ...

Wisconsin muskie angler Tony Burmek caught his 41.5-pound muskie near Hayward in 1955 during a 12-day stretch when he and his brother, Fred, caught 17 muskies. The story by Gordon MacQuarrie ...

Sticking a muskie on a fly is a challenge. Here are some tips from a veteran guide that can help put you in the game.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine catching a trophy fish and celebrating with a mount of your big catch on the wall, but only after you actually released the fish back into the lake. That's happening now in Wisconsin's ...

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 ...

September 1957 had been, Art Lawton recalled, a “miracle” month of muskie fishing. The muskies in New York’s St. Lawrence River had been on a feeding ramp age, and Lawton along with his wife, Ruth, ...