U.S. Geological Survey maps showing the ranges of muskie (left) and pike (right) in the lower 48. U.S. Geological Survey Northern pike and muskies are members of the Esox family of fish ...

To put it plainly, the mighty muskellunge is just flat out harder to catch than its close cousin, the Northern pike. Muskies weren’t nicknamed “the fish of 10,000 casts” by accident, and for many ...

Although the eggs of closely related northern pike stick to vegetation, muskie eggs do not, and instead, sink to the bottom. Therefore, muskies spawn over relatively hard bottom, such as sand and ...

so most fishermen simply say muskie or musky. For most fishermen, muskies are simply a big cousin to the more common northern pike. Northern pike are a favorite game fish of many fishermen because ...

Barring the muskies that live in the South, most northern muskies waters will ice over in the winter, especially in key muskies states like Minnesota and Wisconsin. In many regions, muskie season ...

Inline Spinners Northern Pike Can’t Resist The Mepps Aglia ... If you’re after trophy fish, don’t hesitate to throw a muskie bucktail, which is just an oversized spinner with a deer hair ...

Although some states like Kentucky do permit muskie fishing early in the season, most of the states in native muskie range close the season until after the fish are done spawning. Fishing can be ...

The agency also explained that a tiger muskie is a cross between a muskellunge and a northern pike. The News-Times reported that a regional organization has been stocking tiger muskies in Lake ...

The Chicago pike have enjoyed all of my muskie lures: big bucktails, jerkbaits, plastics, rubber, and more. They’re very aggressive and larger in Chicago, more so than northern Wisconsin ...

Chad Jackson, from New Hartford, recently reeled in a 36-inch tiger muskie and a 45-inch northern pike three days apart from the same spot on the Mohawk River in Utica. Jackson caught both fish at ...

To put it plainly, the mighty muskellunge is just flat out harder to catch than its close cousin, the Northern pike. Muskies weren’t nicknamed “the fish of 10,000 casts” by accident ...