The 2024 musky season has featured rain almost every day and lots of wind, and Steve has heard from a number of anglers who are struggling. In this week's Northwoods Musky Report, he delivers a pep talk with ideas to help you bust your musky slump.

Steve opens this week's Northwoods Musky Report with an on-the-water discussion with his son after they boated five muskies while avoiding the crowds during the July 4th holiday week. While muskies were biting for Steve on wilderness lakes, he notes that bigger fish are showing up for anglers fishing open water.

Steve opens this week's report interviewing a client who caught his personal best musky on a Mepps custom-colored bucktail. Steve then reveals a few ways to catch more muskies on bucktails, and offers tips to better run the edges of weedbeds this season.

Steve begins this week interviewing a northwoods visitor who boated a nice topwater musky. He then offers a few tackle and retrieve tips to help you catch more muskies on surface baits.

In this week's report, Steve discusses what happened during the University of Esox Summer Musky Tactics school during which anglers from five states boated several nice muskies.

In this week's episode, Steve discusses where the best musky action is coming from and names the best-producing bait in his boat so far. He also explains how he fishes that bait.

Steve Heiting and his friends enjoyed a great Wisconsin northwoods musky opener with four fish in the boat. Steve discusses the distinct patterns they found and what else seems to really matter to the muskies so far in the 2024 season.

Steve fished for muskies this week in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and caught two fish. In this week's report, he explains the patterns that caught or moved the Yooper muskies, and discusses conditions people will find on northwoods lakes this weekend.

With the northwoods musky opener a little more than a week away, Steve discusses the lures in his Opening Day lineup, his favorite colors, and explains why he picks them. He also covers current conditions on northwoods waters and predicts a great weekend of crappie fishing.