MORSON, Ont. -- We'd trolled the equivalent of 10,000 casts with only a couple of missed strikes and a full plate of tasty Lake of the Woods scenery to show for our efforts. For one solid day, we'd ...

Muskies are notoriously hard to catch. But as the water cools in fall, like bears going into hibernation, muskies go on a feeding binge. There's no better time than fall to catch a trophy muskie, and ...

Catching large fish in Pennsylvania is never an easy task, but two experts explain why now is a great time to catch a heavy muskellunge. More: Take your time with fall musky “November, the fall in ...

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.

BEMIDJI, Minn. – Every fall, about the time most outdoors enthusiasts across the Northland put away their rods and reels and set their sights on hunting, Steve Young gets serious about fly fishing.

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 ...

The new Chautauqua Reel Outdoors Bait and Tackle Shop at Ashville Bay Marina was headquarters for the New York Muskies Inc.-Chapter 69 annual fall musky fishing contest last weekend. Submitted photo ...

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 ...

Sonya Kalez with her first-ever musky that she caught fishing with her husband in Chautauqua Lake last week. Photo courtesy of Dennis Young The abundant population of Chautauqua Lake muskies are ...