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 ...

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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 ...

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For as long as I can remember, there have been stories about an angler hooking into a monster muskie while fishing for pan fish. The story gets better each year, and while the dates and names may ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis.– The Muskie fish migration lured spectators to the Wingra Dam to see the fish jump from Lake Monona to Lake Wingra. "It's amazing how big they are when you get them out of the water. You ...

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 ...

SAINT CLOUD – Several local amateur baseball teams are advancing in the MBA Class C state tournament with first-round wins last weekend. The Cold Spring Rockies, Sartell Muskies, St. Joseph Joes, ...

The Cold Spring Rockies came into Sunday as one of eight teams left in the Class C state tournament. The Rockies fought hard in two games Sunday but fell in the semifinals to end the season. The Cold ...