Michigan Muskie Alliance

Thorn for me can't wait!!!

I stopped off on Austin on my way to Gourdneck for some northern fishing and temps were 84-85 yesterday.

The waters I have been fishing have been about 78 to 79. Is that to hot? If I killed a fish it would destroy me, so at what temp should I not chance it?

So about 2 weeks ago I changed my line and leader because I had a nice musky break me off. I have spent about 28hrs on the water since and havent caught a thing. I spooled 2 of them with 100pb braided and 2 of my poles with 80lb braided. All of them I have added 100lb leaders. These leaders are my ...

81-82 was temp on Thornapple as of last Saturday

I have 2 rods with c4 abu garcia reels and 1 with a c3 and also the 6500lc. I have always liked abu garcia reels and my walleye poles are also rigged with abu garcias.

Thanks for the help guys! I have been using 50lb braided PowerPro for the last 3 yrs and have been happy with it up until this point. It worked fine for pike but after what I have read I need to up the PowerPro to atleast 80lb. How long will it take the hooks to rust out? or better yet I hope the ...

So today I finally got a muskie on. Not only was it on but it was a big one and right when I got it to the boat it snapped my line. Now I am upset not only because I lost the fish but also because of the damage my lure is going to do with it still being in the fish......I really dont know what ...

I live in Battle Creek and have been fishing Austin for the past month, no luck so far but had a couple follows. But they were lazy follows. I am not used to fishing such a shallow lake with no structure. I was sad to read that natural reproduction is not taking place on the lake. When I was out ...