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In typical years, Minnesota’s muskie opener isn’t the best time to actually hook into a large muskie. Water temperatures are often below 70 degrees — considered a magic number by some — and large ...

While the Cubs and the Cardinals have hit spring training, fishing guide Thad Hinshaw is planning on a little spring training of his own. Hinshaw, 41, of Hudson, usually guides for muskies on the ...

As muskies go, he was a beautiful specimen. A big male, 46 inches long. His day was about to change. Already he was lying belly-up in a wooden trough that served as an operating table. Using a sharp ...

For as long as I can remember, there have been stories about an angler hooking into a monster muskie while fishing for pan fish. The story gets better each year, and while the dates and names may ...

State scientists Shawn Good and Dave Gibson prepare a muskie for surgery in October. Photo by Kate Kampner/CNS Kate Kampner is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont ...

LOWELL, MI -- Headed out for a little bass fishing last week, Kentwood resident David Osterhout never thought he'd catch the biggest fish of his life. Osterhout, 27, was casting a rattling crank bait ...

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 ...

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 ...