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 ...

Anglers looking to tangle with big, toothy predators in fresh water would be hard pressed to find better targets than muskie and pike. The two game fish are closely related, and they inhabit some of ...

An angler out chasing walleye on Lake Erie May 21 landed a surprise 53½-inch, 42-pound muskie. “It’s a muskellunge, but I would call it an alligator,” Harborcreek Township's Scott Bielanin joked. As ...

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, ...

Expert strategies for locating and catching post-spawn muskies from opening day through the spring fishing season. Learn the right water temps and conditions, the best lures, and how to extend this ...

Lake Erie presented a Pennsylvania angler with a belated birthday bucket-list fish of a lifetime in Erie. Scott Bielanin, of Harborcreek, turned 52 on May 21, but he didn’t get his gift until May 25 ...