muskie fishing Articles

Catch up on three of Grand View Outdoors’ most popular stories from last month, including whitetail hunting, venison prep and an epic musky strike.

A musky is tough enough to catch with baitcasting gear; trying to do it with fly gear is insanely hard.

Three generations catch three muskies — on the same day!

No other way to say it — this musky video is a heartbreaker.

At the beginning of a fishing outing, it’s common for a musky guide to demonstrate how different lures work to their clients. In this case, a big musky interrupts the lesson.

Kristine Fischer has caught and released many muskies in her fishing career, but this one took a bite out of her knee while being unhooked.

The angler is rewarded with a big muskie, but the fish has the last laugh because it destroys an expensive fishing rod during the battle.

You don’t need a fancy boat and thousands of dollars in high-tech electronics to catch fish, even muskies. And these young anglers from Wisconsin prove it.

A young guide in Quebec has learned how to catch massive muskies through the ice on tip-ups. It’s literally hand-to-hand combat — and the one bleeding after the battle isn’t the fish.

Top-of-the-food-chain predators such as muskies and big northern pike aren’t as elusive as you might think. Here’s a four-step game plan for success.

If you want to catch your biggest muskie of the year — and maybe your life — fall is prime time, and the top method is with a large sucker minnow.

Two young muskie anglers are having a great day on the water — until catastrophe strikes.

This 55.25-incher could be the biggest muskie ever caught by an ice fisherman, and it’s all captured on video.

When many anglers in the North are drilling holes through ice to target panfish, trophy hunters in Lake Erie’s Buffalo Harbor are trolling for muskies — big ones!

Muskie fishing in mid-November in northern Wisconsin can be summed up in one word — brutal. But sometimes the reward is worth the pain.

Lake Erie is known as a world-class walleye fishery, and it also produces gigantic muskies.

To entice strikes from summertime muskies, remember these three keys to success.

A West Virginia muskie angler proved you don’t need an expensive boat — or any boat for that matter — to catch the fish of a lifetime.

Whenever you fill a fishing reel with braid, tape should be used so the line doesn’t slip on the spool.

There are windows of opportunity when you’ll catch more and bigger fish — bass included — in lakes by leaving the boat at home and sneaking around in waders instead.

A 55-pound 14.8-ounce muskie caught on Nov. 22, 2021, is likely to break the long-standing Minnesota state record of 54 pounds, which was caught in 1957.

Wisconsin angler Nicole Lynn catches her biggest muskie yet, and she’s in a kayak!

Capturing a muskie strike and catch on drone video had never been done before. These two anglers proved it could be done.

To properly release a muskie, you need the right tools, technique and mindset.

Mille Lacs Lake in central Minnesota is home to world-class muskies, and Benjamin Knutson recently caught and released two of them less than an hour apart.

Fish can be caught again and again if cared for properly and then promptly released.

Topnotch electronics are tremendous tools for finding key underwater structure, and sometimes they tip you off to a monster fish’s precise location, too.

After three days of checking out the newest rods, a panel of muskie experts made its choice for “Best New Muskie Rod” at Muskie Expo Chicago.

A muskie is known as the “Fish of 10,000 Casts,” but sometimes that math is lost on a young angler who doesn’t pay attention to such statistics.