This story, “The Legend of Muskie Joe,” appeared in the May 1983 issue of Outdoor Life. Muskie Joe Stamper was a living legend along the tree-lined banks of Kentucky’s Kinniconick Creek. For nearly 50 ...

Captain Hans “The Carver” Mann is a musky charter captain and skilled wood carver who will be sharing his fish-catching secrets and artwork at the Musky Expo at the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel this ...

If you asked me point blank which is better as a game fish—muskie vs pike—I’m saying pike a thousand times over. This, of course, is just my opinion, but looks aside, the biggest difference between ...

Freeze-up was a couple of weeks away when Josh Stevenson and I launched his boat recently, looking for a muskie. Tricking one of these toothy behemoths into munching a lure or bait would, we knew, end ...