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, ...

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 ...

What’s probably the rarest game fish in Northwest Montana? I’ll bet that 99% of local fishermen can’t answer that question correctly. Give up? It’s probably the tiger muskie. Tiger muskies are only ...

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 ...

Musky hunters need all the help they can get in an effort to find and catch the elusive muskellunge. Results of a recent study of how muskellunge move about lakes and home ranges may be of interest to ...

We all have our weaknesses, and mine, which I explained to Sawyer County musky fishing guide Mike Cookas, is catching musky. I gave Mike Cookas a call in attempt to receive information on how to fish ...

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