With new sonar gadget, it’s hard to tell

With new sonar gadget, it’s hard to tell

Source: The Minnesota Star Tribune

12/14/2024

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 our season on a happy note, with months of lake and river ice approaching.

Dressed more like deer hunters than anglers, Stevenson and I were as comfortable as we could be, given that a cloud hangs over the sport of muskie fishing these days, not only in Minnesota and Wisconsin, but throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Or is muskie fishing even a sport anymore?

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