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 ...

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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, ...

Allen with a 41-inch tiger he caught last year on Otisco Lake. Jason Allen is a veteran tiger muskie angler and Otisco Lake is his playground. "Tiger muskie fishing at Otisco Lake is truly the best in ...

While many of us trade rods for rifles this time of year, muskie angling diehards know that fall is the season to swing for the fences, as giants are just a cast away. As waters cool and days shorten, ...

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 ...

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 ...