Do muskie have a home range?

Strongly, and telemetry keeps confirming it: most muskie live within a defined seasonal home range — often tens of hectares, not the whole lake — and return to the same summer haunts and the same spawning bays year after year. Displaced fish home back over kilometers. Ranges are seasonal rather than fixed: a fish may hold a weed-flat range in summer, shift to a basin range in late summer, and use fall structure predictably. For the angler this is the most actionable fact in muskie fishing: a big fish seen, followed, or lost is not gone — it lives there, and it can be revisited on better conditions.

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