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 ...

The "toothy creature" season began when the season for Muskellunge -- the so-called fish of 10,000 casts -- opened Saturday on Minnesota waters. The limit is one. Opportunities are many. "Today, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first day Robert Hawkins fished on Mille Lacs Lake, the only fish he caught was a 57-inch muskie, landed on a fly rod - a possible world record. Hawkins, a Minnesota transplant who came from ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- Let's let the numbers speak for themselves. These are musky numbers on Lake Vermilion. Here's a good number -- 44 inches. That's the average size of musky caught, according to two ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS – The fish of a lifetime slammed Andrew Slette’s black, tube-shaped lure at 6:30 a.m., only five casts into a designated muskie outing on Pelican Lake in Otter Tail County. “He was right ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) has certified a state muskellunge fishing record months after it was released back into the wild. Eric Bakke, an angler from Princeton, Minnesota, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Cass County Deputy Sheriff Bob Landreville and veteran fishing guide Dan Craven refer to their beloved Leech Lake as the mother of all Minnesota muskie lakes. At a fishing forum ...

Eric Bakke of Princeton, Minn., broke the record for the longest muskie in Minnesota. He snagged a 58 1/4 inch muskie in June on Mille Lacs.

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 ...