
Looking ahead to spring: Trolling for muskies
If you’re persistent this early spring and put in the time you’ll connect with a muskie at some point. Be ready, have a plan, and remain calm – until the fish is netted and in

If you’re persistent this early spring and put in the time you’ll connect with a muskie at some point. Be ready, have a plan, and remain calm – until the fish is netted and in

This week’s snowmelt and high water is the likely primer for the spring steelhead run.

It’s known for its wilderness aesthetics and a fishery of bluegills, black crappies, smallmouth bass, walleyes, and muskellunge.

Some lakes still have decent ice, some are becoming open. Where anglers are catching what.

In New York’s fish and game world, March 15 is a big day as it marks the closing of fishing seasons for walleyes, northern pike, tiger muskellunge and pickerel.


A lake’s ability to produce trophy native game fish will deteriorate if ciscoes disappear; the fatty forage is an important part of a big fish’s diet.
By Joe Shead Contributing Writer As I set the flag under the spindle of our second tip-up, I noticed that the flag of our first tip-up was waving at us in the chilly November

Many anglers targeting other game fish catch pike incidentally on a wide array of lures and baited walleye jigs. Muskie on the other hand, are known to be very difficult to rise for a strike.
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