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Muskies

MidWest Outdoors has a full selection of Muskie fishing articles, straight from our magazine!
This 48-incher dashed out of the thick weeds in 5 feet and on top of a reef to hammer a firetiger 1-ounce tandem spinnerbait.
Smutka with a big bass. These can be a bonus fish in the shallow, thick weeds in August.
The tools for this technique are pretty simple: a typical muskie rod, reel and line combo with a double hook (left) or single-hook 1-ounce tandem blade spinnerbait.
Nate Smutka got this 46-incher in 3 feet in early August. Weeds with current coming in were the ticket for this fish.

Go Small and Shallow for Pressured, Late-summer Muskies

“That didn’t take long,” I said, followed by, “Get the net!” My first cast in the shallow, weedy area we […]

Pete Maina says muskie anglers are different because they’re willing to fish for long hours for the chance at catching a monster. Here he fishes with the namesake of John Gillespie's Waters & Woods television show and Rusty Lilyquist last September.
This picture from 1991 is the same year the expert started Musky Mania Tackle.
Maina credits his mentor Doug Johnson for teaching him a lot about muskies.
Maina says the allure of muskies is their ‘shock value.’ After hours of casting without seeing anything, seemingly from nowhere a toothy beast can appear.

Pete Maina in his own words: Maina Vents and the Muskie Allure

They say that keeping anger bottled up can lead to health problems, and if that’s true, then it’s doubtful that […]

The two rods starting on the left are designated muskie rods while the one on the right is a heavy bass rod. If you are giving fishing for this species a try, don’t invest in muskie gear at first. Instead, use your heavy bass equipment to start. (Left to right): Daiwa BG 5000 Spinning Reel; St. Croix Premier Musky Spinning Rod; the 8-foot Heavy Power/Fast Action and 1- to 5-ounce lure; Daiwa Lexa-HD 400XS-P 8.1:1 Gear Ratio; St. Croix Premier Musky Rod; the 8-foot Heavy Power/Moderate Action rod and 1- to 8-ounce lure; Ardent Apex Magnum 6.5:1 Gear Ratio; Bass Pro Shops’ Extreme Casting Rod; and the 7-foot, medium-heavy rod with 3/8- to 1 1/2-ounce lure.
A rather inexpensive start-up box to test the waters for bank fishing muskies: the Plano 3700. The box contains leaders and baits.

Muskies, of all Things, From the Bank, of all Places

I dabbled in muskie fishing from that little front seat of a cabin-rental Lund in the Northwoods when I was […]