Steve Heiting Chances are very good that during the coming seminar and sport show season my response to a simple question is going to disappoint the person asking it. I’ll be asked the same question at least once a week and I’ll give the same answer. It will be an honest answer, but it won’t… Continue Reading
Steve Heiting When it comes to rock bars, this one has it all — boulders, a gradual slope before a sudden drop-off to a main lake basin, and located on an island that already is a must-fish spot. This rock bar is a veritable “spot on the spot.”Yet I had never caught a musky there.… Continue Reading
Steve Heiting There’s little question why bucktails are the most popular style of musky lure. Bucktails can be fished fast or slow, in clear water or dark, shallow or deep, from season’s start to end. Their spinning blade and wiggling tail seem to hold a special fascination for muskies, and when the moment of… Continue Reading
by Steve Heiting I set down my rod, took a pop from my boat’s cooler, and plunked my butt on the gunnel to assess the situation. My videographer, Rick Mai, grabbed a bottle of water and set down the camera for a well-deserved break. Already Rick had filmed my battles with two nice fish and… Continue Reading
by Steve Heiting This 25-pounder by Steve Heiting was the largest musky caught during the evening described at the beginning of this article. I hate to admit it, but I almost “outsmarted” myself from a tremendous evening of musky fishing last season. Fortunately, it was the confidence gained from too many previous positive outings that… Continue Reading
by Steve Heiting Though it’s generally not considered a big fish time, Steve Heiting has caught muskies measuring as large as this 48-incher in the early season. Eight muskies in a day, a couple of times. Certainly several sevens. And lots of 6- and 5-fish days. A check of my fishing records for the past… Continue Reading
by Steve Heiting Steve Heiting caught this 51-incher during a last quarter moon period. Steve’s catch records indicate that the last quarter moon is nearly as good as the full moon period. September 10, 1998, will forever stand out in my memory as well as my musky catch records. I hope to experience another day… Continue Reading
by Steve Heiting If there’s one thing I don’t like, it’s being outfished. My ego isn’t big enough that I have to outfish others, but it dictates that my effort must at least be respectable. And the results from my boat were anything but that. Do glow-in-the-dark Mr. Twister tails work on bucktails? Steve Heiting… Continue Reading
by Steve Heiting This 50-incher caught by Steve Heiting ate a Dancin’Raider after it had been cast into the fish’s “garage” haunt. Fifty-two inches is a lot of musky, and by the time the last bit of its tail paddled off into the gloom, my boat had drifted to the structure from which the fish… Continue Reading