Noah Moss, 13, of Aitkin, Minnesota, landed this 54-inch muskie Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, on Lake Plantagenet near Bemidji. He'd landed a 51¾-inch muskie the previous morning. Noah's 54-inch muskie ...

When 13-year-old Noah Moss of Aitkin, Minn., landed a 54-inch muskie on Aug. 17 on Lake Plantagenet near Bemidji, he suddenly found himself leading the Youth Division in Muskies Inc.’s North American ...

After not getting a bite on the first day, Bill Swanson and his friend were nearing the end of their second day of fishing without a strike when suddenly the “bite window” opened, and didn’t close ...

Bill Swanson lives on Chautauqua Lake, one of New York’s premier muskie fisheries. Over the years he’s caught quite a few of the state’s largest freshwater sport fish, but nothing like the monster he ...

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty four days now without taking a fish." — Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea" Once upon a time, when I ...

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There’s a new world-record muskie on the books. Earlier this year, the International Game Fish Association certified Derek Balmas’ 53.15-inch muskie as the new all-tackle length record for the species ...

Sometimes the big ones get away. But evidently that happens less frequently when you're fishing in northwestern Pennsylvania. Of the 127 submissions that made the cut for the Pennsylvania Fish and ...

Bill Swanson has caught many 'o muskie over the years on his home waters of Chautauqua Lake, where he lives, but none bigger than this 51-inch, 40-pound monster he landed in early November while ...