When Dane Nelson paddled his kayak onto a Minneapolis city lake June 16, he didn’t know he would catch a 51-inch muskie. But Nelson, of Minneapolis, a long-time muskie angler, thought he might. The ...

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 ...

MERRIFIELD, Minn. — They say muskies are the fish of 10,000 casts. For 91-year-old Bertha Lunzer, who spends her summers in Merrifield, the count is not measured by the number of casts but by the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — We all know people who are enthusiastic about their hobbies. Sometimes... TOO enthusiastic. It would probably be fair to say that 15-year-old Jack Moe is somewhere in between. His dad ...

On Aug. 2, Mikhail Pearthree might have caught the largest muskie recorded in the greater Twin Cities metro, and for sure he caught one of the largest ever to swim in Minnesota waters, a monster ...

DULUTH — Minnesota has just over 100 lakes and rivers considered prime for muskie fishing, and the state Department of Natural Resources wants your input on how to manage them. This week, the DNR ...

Most of my fishing energy over the last seven years has been devoted to finding and occasionally catching Minnesota's most elusive and frustratingly alluring game fish, the muskellunge. Thankfully, my ...

Dave Coahran, fisheries supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Spicer, has raised the possibility of adding muskie to a lake in Kandiyohi County, but it's currently only a ...