September 1957 had been, Art Lawton recalled, a “miracle” month of muskie fishing. The muskies in New York’s St. Lawrence River had been on a feeding ramp age, and Lawton along with his wife, Ruth, ...

On the St. Lawrence River, the “hunt for red October” has started. The trolling for muskellunge has taken on an obsession ...

Longtime Wisconsin guide Jeff Van Remortel says the moon phase was in their favor on June 4, when he and a longtime client, Mike Jacoby, were out fishing for muskies in Green Bay. The action had been ...

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 ...

The fish bettered Van Remortel's personal best by one-quarter of an inch. And it was something else – it became the Wisconsin record musky in the "live release" category maintained by the Department ...

Add this one to the record books, literally. Jeff Van Remortel, a fishing guide from Hazelhurst, Wisconsin, caught and released a 56-inch-long musky in June. The fish set a record in Wisconsin, ...

HAYWARD, Wis. -- The legend of fishing great Louis Spray, who in 1949 caught a muskellunge that the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame here honors as the world's largest, is under attack. Big ...

The first day Robert Hawkins fished on Mille Lacs Lake, the only fish he caught was a 57-inch muskie, landed on a fly rod - a possible world record. Hawkins, a Minnesota transplant who came from ...