If you're not fishing for early-season muskies, you’re missing out on a great opportunity—and you're hardly alone. With prime muskie fishing typically pegged for mid-summer and early fall, lots of ...

BRAINERD, Minn. — “If you’re a very bad person in this life,” hall of fame angler Al Lindner once told me, “your punishment will be casting to muskies for the rest of eternity.” Admittedly, he said ...

As muskies go, he was a beautiful specimen. A big male, 46 inches long. His day was about to change. Already he was lying belly-up in a wooden trough that served as an operating table. Using a sharp ...

Muskie fishing opens in Minnesota this weekend, but excitement for the season's first days isn't what it once was. That's because the state's lakes and rivers hold fewer muskies than they did a decade ...

Minnesota muskies have been known at times to devour extra-large prey, like the 18.9-inch white sucker that researchers retrieved this spring from the stomach of a 50-inch muskie on Shamineau Lake ...

State scientists Shawn Good and Dave Gibson prepare a muskie for surgery in October. Photo by Kate Kampner/CNS Kate Kampner is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont ...