Category: Muskies and Northern Pike
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Musky Lures For The Neophyte
By Cory Allen All too often in guiding, or just being a magnanimous steward into musky angling, we face the difficulty of finding lures that allow those with minimal experience to have a maximum opportunity at witnessing the awe of a muskellunge doing what it does best: #%^^ing things up.
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Breaking Barriers for Big Muskies
By Cory Allen It Might As Well Be Spring: I’m a restless as a willow in a windstorm; I’m as giddy as a baby in a swing. I swear that I have spring fever, as do most musky anglers this time of year. Here they sit, holed up in their dens, clinging rabidly to a…
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Strip Tease Muskies
By Chris Willen When most people think about late season and cold water musky fishing they think giant rubber and suckers being dragged beneath a bobber. Although both are amazing ideas, I’m here to tell you there’s another method worth adding to the list.
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New Tennessee Muskie Record Released
By Cory Allen If anyone ever tells you they know how the fishing is going to go down on the water on any given day, especially a guide, raise an eyebrow like the doctor just sneezed-injected the Botox. That someone is either a liar or completely oblivious. For all the accumulation of knowledge, tackle, techniques,…
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Mud Spelled Backwards is “Dum”
By Cory Allen The immortal words of Mel Blanc ring true in their classic Warner Bros. context, but in the art of pursuing muskies that’s about where the humor ends. Too many anglers chagrin and curse in the wind when they see their favorite waters turn to Nesquik, especially riverine systems.
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The Brass Knuckles
By Jacob Priegel Tennessee Valley Muskie Authority During an impulsive “early life crisis” this spring, I made a move to Tennessee and joined forces with Cory Allen and Matt Lynch to create the Tennessee Valley Muskie Authority muskie fishing resource and guide service (TVMA) and haven’t looked back.
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The Changing Landscape of Fall Musky Waters
By Adam M. Glickman A Few years back while fishing, a friend of mine, Cory Allen, brought up a topic that I have thought a lot about ever since. Cory was and is still a dedicated student of the teachings of legendary and revolutionary angler Buck Perry. Perry pioneered the concept of fishing off shore…
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Pike, Muskie and the old, Twitchin’ Reaction
By JP Bushey Cooling water reboots options for pike and muskie casters. Fishing twitchbaits consistently electrifies these fish, no matter what the temp gauge says. To me, esox species are the most fun and interesting fish of them all. They always have been. One part psychotic killer, one part pouting baby, these fish excite, engage…
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Accidental Trophy Catches
By Cory Allen We all hear the stories, all the time. Crappie angler has his intended buttermilk fillet turned into sushi boat side; Bass tournament angler catches a 52 incher during the eleventh hour and bitches at his poor luck. One man’s trash as they say, but so many of these accidents go completely unnoticed…
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Musky Forage Specificity and Lure Choice
By Adam M. Glickman Often, I have wondered just how forage specific muskies actually get. Muskies, like any predator, are certainly opportunistic, but it would be foolish for the angler looking to maximize results not to attempt to tune in to specific forage tendencies that arise throughout the year.