That sounds like a fish story. But anything can happen on the water. The real name of muskie is muskellunge, a word derived ...

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Brad Hoppe of Parkers Prairie, Minn., owner with his wife Carrie of Musky Mayhem Tackle, and a muskie that munched one of their signature lures. (Dennis Anderson) ...

But perhaps the biggest mystery of them all is why we try to catch pike and musky on a fly rod. It just doesn’t make sense.

His quarry: Big northern pike — and the occasional bonus muskie. "I don't deer hunt, so one of my favorite times to pike fish is deer season," said Young, who lives on a small lake north of Bemidji.

Kate Kamper is a student at the University of Vermont. The Community News Service is a program in which University of Vermont ...