At the end of 12 days of fishing, much of it in weather that froze lines to rods and started the first ice of the season creeping out from the shores of Sawyer County lakes, Tony and his partner had ...

Wisconsin is cutting muskellunge stocking by 70% and closing some hatcheries this season after state budget issues. Overall fish stocking will be down 11%. That means 40,000 fewer muskies, and 300,000 ...

The elusive muskie is getting less so, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. According to a recent survey of muskie anglers, 56 percent of Wisconsin anglers, 48 percent of ...

Wisconsin muskie angler Tony Burmek caught his 41.5-pound muskie near Hayward in 1955 during a 12-day stretch when he and his brother, Fred, caught 17 muskies. The story by Gordon MacQuarrie ...

LAKE EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - Hundreds of young muskies have new homes across lakes in northwestern Wisconsin. The First Wisconsin Chapter of Muskies, Inc has been around since the 1970s, and is dedicated ...

A new Wisconsin musky record has just been certified on Green Bay, but there’s already talk of that record being broken, possibly this year. On June 4th, 2025, longtime fishing guide Jeff Van Remortel ...

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CASTLE ROCK LAKE, Wisc. -- Freshwater fish with teeth that swim in Ozark waters include walleye and brown trout. Those pale in size to the mighty muskellunge, a lean, mean fighting machine of northern ...

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Anglers looking to tangle with big, toothy predators in fresh water would be hard pressed to find better targets than muskie and pike. The two game fish are closely related, and they inhabit some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Derek Balmas was fishing with his friend Mike Muehelemann (left) when he landed the record muskie. There’s a new world-record ...