Category: Muskies and Northern Pike
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Think Small For Early Season Muskies
By: Adam Glickman – Date Posted: May 11, 2012 I stood knee deep in the small river with its root beer colored water rolling around my legs. My casting target was the eddy behind a large boulder. The current all around was swift, so I lead my mark upstream and cast beyond the boulder. I…
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Glide Time Muskies
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: December 11, 2011 It was a cold and snowy February, 2011 morning. Not thrilled about going outside to shovel the snow, I woke up with the intentions of turning on the television. It seems that whenever I get the chance to watch any Saturday morning television, I turn on…
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Muskie On The Fly – Part 2
By: Drew Price – Date Posted: March 13, 2012 Dialing in muskies is never an easy task with any gear but there are definitely a more than few advantages to using a fly rod. In recent years it has become much more popular. Part 1 of this article dug into gear choices, casting, leaders and…
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Winter Pickerel
By: Jim Gronaw – Date Posted: December 11, 2011 The fish just barely thumped my 32-nd ounce jig but immediately felt much heavier than the panfish I had been catching the past hour. Setting the hook, I felt that I would likely lose whatever was on the end of my two-pound test mono. My son…
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Cortland Masterbraid
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: November 16, 2011 Braided lines often bewilder anglers. We either love them or we hate them and there is never a happy medium. From a personal standpoint, I often get frustrated by braided lines. This is a consequence of having endured bad experiences with their casting and handling, as…
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Sea Monster Season
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: November 3, 2010 Let me ask you the following questions related strictly towards the game of Musky fishing: Why do you do it? Why do you enjoy it so much? What makes you go back for more the following day? If I was asked the same, my answer is…
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The Effects of Fall For Muskies
By: Adam Glickman – Date Posted: September 15, 2011 Fall is the most productive time of the season to fish muskies in the upper Midwest, both for numbers of fish and large individuals. The calendar year is broken down into four seasons, fall being a single and whole season. However, as a musky fisherman I…
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Muskie On The Fly: Part 1
By Drew Price – Date Posted: September 15, 2011 For most anglers the word musky (or muskie) conjures up images. Huge aquatic assassins that can eat almost anything but can be very difficult to catch. The fish of 10,000 casts is often said. What if there were a means of angling that helped cut that…
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Gator Games For Northern Illinois Pike
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: November 3, 2010 Esox Lucius, better referred to as Northern Pike, are sleek and explosive ambush predators that are popular amongst freshwater anglers. Northern Pike are coolwater species that are extremely adaptable living in a diverse number of habitats ranging from small creeks and streams to the largest river…
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Early Season Muskies: Find the Warm Water
By: Joe Bucher – Date Posted: May 11, 2011 If there’s one thing, above all else, that has worked well for me in my search for “active” early season muskies; it has been finding warming water. The term “active” is important here, too. It’s important to note that not all the muskies in one given…