Freshwater muskellunge — often called “the fish of ten thousand casts” — sits at the very top of the angling world. For those ...

There are fish that people like to catch, and then there is the musky — a long, heavy, toothy, unpredictable apex predator ...

A 57-inch-long muskellunge claimed a state record. Here are the other longest fish on record, according to three DNR categories.

An Ogdensburg taxidermist has completed restoration work on the oldest creature of his career: a muskie caught in 1918 by a ...

Catching musky is hard. They’re evasive fish that can be difficult to find, so trying to hook into one from kayak—which has limited range—probably seems impossible to most anglers. But I prefer to ...

Wisconsin's catch-and-release muskie record was broken for a third time in 2025 by Sam Becker, who caught his 57-inch muskie in Green Bay.

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 ...

Sam Becker’s catch represented the third time in 2025 that the state muskie record was broken in Wisconsin. All three fish ...

Imagine catching a trophy fish and celebrating with a mount of your big catch on the wall, but only after you actually released the fish back into the lake. That's happening now in Wisconsin's ...

It seems like a simple recipe, really. Joe Bucher — longtime host of “Fishing with Joe Bucher” and a 2002 Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame inductee — believes there are just three ingredients to ...

The Wild Rose hatchery’s spotted muskie fingerlings are stocked each fall. “We shoot for an 11-inch fish,” Landwehr said.

The first time I saw a musky, I was about 6, fishing with my dad in northern Wisconsin. Nervously peering over the edge of the boat, it seemed that fish was almost as long as I was tall. It had a ...