DULUTH — Minnesota has just over 100 lakes and rivers considered prime for muskie fishing, and the state Department of Natural Resources wants your input on how to manage them. This week, the DNR ...

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 ...

MILLE LACS - A muskie caught on Lake Mille Lacs the day before Thanksgiving could have been a world record - although it’ll never be official. Caught by Dominic Hoyos of Stillwater, who was fishing ...

Muskellunge are not the kind of fish most would choose to introduce a first-time angler to the sport. It takes hard work, a lot of time, the right tools and patience before they may even catch a ...

In Minnesota, hot fishing always has meant that walleyes are biting, or perhaps sunnies or crappies, or bass, northern pike or muskies. Now, as weather vagaries tied to climate change become more ...

Noah Moss, 13, of Aitkin, Minnesota, landed this 54-inch muskie Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, on Lake Plantagenet near Bemidji. He'd landed a 51¾-inch muskie the previous morning. Noah's 54-inch muskie ...

Hunter Zietz was fishing with his best friend on opening morning under the Mississippi River bridge between Lake Bemidji and Lake Irving, but he never expected to reel in a 52-inch muskie. Hunter ...

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 ...

That's where the nonprofit fills in, using donations to purchase and stock 2,450 fry, or young fish, across the area.

MERRIFIELD, Minn. — They say muskies are the fish of 10,000 casts. For 91-year-old Bertha Lunzer, who spends her summers in Merrifield, the count is not measured by the number of casts but by the ...

When 13-year-old Noah Moss of Aitkin, Minn., landed a 54-inch muskie on Aug. 17 on Lake Plantagenet near Bemidji, he suddenly found himself leading the Youth Division in Muskies Inc.’s North American ...

LAKE ALEXANDER-Muskellunge are not the kind of fish most would choose to introduce a first-time angler to the sport. It takes hard work, a lot of time, the right tools and patience before they may ...