That it was, and it may set a world record for the largest Muskie caught while fly fishing. The fish was 57 inches long and 26-and-a-half inches around, weighing more than 50 pounds.

Fly fishing for muskies isn’t new — a 1911 photo shows an angler with a muskie and fly rod — but its popularity is growing as anglers seek new challenges. “We figured out that we can draw ...

They call the muskie a fish of 1,000 casts. Well, Overland Park, Kansas fly fisherman Brad Kellerman beat those odds last week. On his 150th cast at Fellows Lake north of Springfield, Kellerman ...

so they didn’t actually weigh the fish. But Kellerman said it was still “the fish of a lifetime,” and only the second muskie he had ever caught on a fly. He caught a 34-incher at Fellows ...