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Be the FIRST to see Musky Insider every week by signing up for the email version of this newsletter. It's 100% free and we will never sell your email address! Click here to sign up and never miss another issue.  Mark Lijewski Drops Heat When a guy has stacked over 25 first-place finishes and is pushing another 50 top-10s over decades of musky tournament fishing, it’s probably worth leaning in when he starts talking. That’s exactly what happened in our latest Musky Insider PRO Q&A with Mark Lijewski, who’s spent years cashing checks and cracking fish from Wisconsin to Minnesota, Canada, Kentucky, Iowa, and beyond. And while the...

Be the FIRST to see Musky Insider every week by signing up for the email version of this newsletter. It's 100% free and we will never sell your email address! Click here to sign up and never miss another issue. Sonar War Heats Up (Again) While anglers continue debating the ethics and potential regulation of forward-facing sonar, the electronics companies clearly aren’t hitting the brakes. Garmin just dropped a new sonar system built around the GT360UHD transducer and Spy™ Pole, and it looks like the electronics arms race just found another gear. The setup combines a new 360-degree sonar system (OneVü™) with a motorized...

Be the FIRST to see Musky Insider every week by signing up for the email version of this newsletter. It's 100% free and we will never sell your email address! Click here to sign up and never miss another issue. MN Muskie Expo Is Here The biggest Musky Expo of the year is coming up this weekend, Feb. 27 through March 1. The Minnesota Muskie Expo is being held in conjunction with the Minnesota Anglers Boat Show and with 155 booths this year, it takes the cake as the biggest show of the season. The musky community has in-person shows all over the place...

Be the FIRST to see Musky Insider every week by signing up for the email version of this newsletter. It's 100% free and we will never sell your email address! Click here to sign up and never miss another issue. Diet Data vs Catch Data: What Actually Lines Up? Last week, we had Minnesota DNR fisheries biologist Kamden Glade jump inside Musky Insider PRO and share something we rarely get to see side by side: What muskies were actually eating… and what anglers were actually catchin’ ‘em on. Kamden shared musky stomach content data from studies across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois reservoirs, Virginia rivers, Pennsylvania systems, and...

Be the FIRST to see Musky Insider every week by signing up for the email version of this newsletter. It's 100% free and we will never sell your email address! Click here to sign up and never miss another issue. River Musky Logic Tips Last week’s River Musky Logic class with James Lindner was one of those sessions that makes you rethink how you fish rivers from the ground up. James framed river musky fishing as a behavior and positioning game, where current, forage, and efficiency dictate almost everything a musky does. Current Is a Conveyor Belt One of the biggest themes James hammered...