Category: Muskies and Northern Pike
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Tackle Crafting on a Musky Budget
In the era of economic recession, musky anglers are exposed to the cost effective strategies of building their own lures. Tackle crafting not only saves my bank account, but its creativity aspect helps me catch more muskies.
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The grass is always greener on the other side… “Musky Land” in New Mexico?
By Matt Pelletier It’s funny how we do this to ourselves. We often give in as our brain tries to feed our appetite for more fish, bigger fish, or better water. I blame the fishing shows that boast amazing fishing at waters here and there on a map. They get us dreaming and sometimes even…
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Castrolling: The Reciprocity of Trolling and Casting for Muskies
By Cory Allen The concept of versus to begin with, especially in the world of angling where every tactic and tool at our disposal contributes to figuring out the greater rubix cube that is our wonderful little blood pressure spiking past-time, is a bit counter intuitive. I don’t see the two methods of trolling versus…
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Southern Reservoir Dragons
By Cory Allen In the musky waters surrounding Rock Island State Park in middle Tennessee, I not only get to fish southern dragons year around, but the system itself has several interconnected but distinctive fisheries within just a short trailer ride between one another, but virtually impossible to reach via water. On any given trip,…
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Introduction to Tennessee Muskies
By Cory Allen Since the beginnings of charted exploration, cartographers were given accounts of fierce creatures prowling the waters just beyond the edges of the map. To the Greeks, it was Scylla and Charybdis, the guardians of the Bosporus. To the Norse, the doom of countless ships that left calm shores never to return had…
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Silver Magic: Cisco Spawn Muskies
By: Adam M. Glickman For most anglers, late November in Wisconsin and Minnesota looks like a bleak time. Summer is long since gone and winter is right around the corner. To the untrained eye, it looks like both the land and water is locking down and closing up shop. However, nothing could be further from…
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Muskie Suckers For History
By: Adam M. Glickman Years of live bait fishing for muskies has led me to one of the few truths in all of musky fishing: Muskies are genetically predetermined to love white suckers. The response of muskies towards white suckers is uncanny. That includes muskies that are extremely pressured or perhaps have seen very few…
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How to Train Your Dragon: Teaching Old Muskies New Tricks
By: Cory Allen Participating in a sport that is inherently conducted mostly on a battlefield of perception, interpretation, and imagination fathoms below our fiberglass footing. Few are the occasions when the gap between angler and adversary is bridged to the level where they can not only go toe-to-toe, but meet eye-to-eye before locking horns. In…
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Muskie Catch & Release Procedures
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: September 1, 2012 Every once in a while, I receive reader feedback pertaining to past stories, write-ups, video, and photos. One in particular, which was received earlier this morning, is my underwritten topic concerning the catch and release aspect of musky fishing. The procedure of a quick catch-photo-release and…
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Downsized Muskies
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: July 10, 2012 If you’re muskie fishing during spring and early summer, a standby piece of advice you’ve probably heard repeatedly and absorbed is that it’s necessary to downsize your baits in order to catch fish. During this season, as water temperatures remain cool and most common forage species…