Forgotten (Or Temporarily Overlooked) Muskie Lures

You might regard muskie fishing, as I do, as a minor act of rebellion. Or, depending on how you look at things, a desperate measure. After all, you’re choosing to fling a potential chomp of food out into an abyss that on the optimistic side might harbor a single muskie for every five acres of water. The odds go sideways when 10 boats chop up a cabbage bed, 20 baits all vying for the same handful of muskies. Either way, the dilemma never changes: Is it better to fish a proven lure or something different, perhaps something that hasn’t left your box since 1982?

Or, sometimes, you find yourself on the front edge of an emerging trend and experience one of those rare...

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