Musky talk from the show floor to the boat.
Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast is for anglers who already speak musky and northern pike fluently. Episodes move from weather, show booths, and listener notes into practical talk about early-season timing, stocking, tactics, pressure, bait choices, and where fish are actually being found.
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Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast is a musky and northern pike show that talks like it belongs inside the fishing community it covers. It is not a beginner glossary. The conversations assume the listener already knows why early season timing matters, why a regulation tweak can set off a room, and why one bait name can start a full side discussion. Episodes often begin with weather, travel, expo logistics, booth updates, and friendly jabs before settling into the fishing. That rhythm is part of the appeal. The show feels local, specific, and lived in. Recent episodes work through early-season muskies in Iowa, Wisconsin season changes, stocking expectations, social media pressure, and the long wait for open water in colder zones. Guests bring water-level detail. Ryan Becker talks early-season muskies around Iowa. Pete Maina and Rob Manthei help frame stocking and season questions. Austin Wiggerman brings Southern Illinois fishing and WAV products into the mix. Noah Binsfeld adds river muskies, shallow jet boat runs, weeds, target casting, and bait control. Live expo episodes shift the feel from interview room to show floor, with Minnesota and Wisconsin Muskie Expo chatter, crowd reports, bait makers, booth traffic, topwater questions, sucker-bite alternatives, and gear picks. The show also tracks the people and businesses around it, including Team Rhino Outdoors and Muskie Mayhem Tackle. Its conversations can wander, but they usually wander toward something useful. A point may get circled from three angles before it lands. That gives the show a working-angler feel rather than a scripted media shape. The strongest moments come when tactics, conditions, and fishery politics meet in the same discussion. It is warm without being glossy. It is opinionated without trying to sound bigger than the water it is talking about. For musky anglers, that is the hook.
Made for: Built for musky and northern pike anglers who already care about seasons, stocking, bait choices, water conditions, and regional pressure. It best serves listeners who want practical, insider fishing conversation with enough banter to feel familiar.
What sets it apart: The show blends expo-floor community chatter with detailed seasonal tactics and fishery-management talk. It stands out by treating musky fishing as a circuit of water, weather, regulations, tackle, and booth relationships.
Every week we talk fishing more specifcially musky and northern pike.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed tactics and candid fisheries debates make musky angling legible from the cast itself to the policies shaping future seasons.
Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast treats musky angling as both a technical pursuit and a public conversation. The host moves between guest interviews, discussions with familiar voices and live expo panels, giving practical fishing questions room alongside debates over stocking,…
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Ryan Becker grounds early-season Iowa musky talk in realistic expectations, pressure, and local context.
Ryan Becker keeps this early-season musky episode rooted in practical expectations and fishing pressure, with Iowa as the main lens and a broader nod to early-season patterns.
A grounded early-season musky discussion about stocking, rule changes, and anglers trying to protect what comes next.
Early-season musky fishing turns into a broader look at how the sport grows from here, with stocking as the main pressure point and regulation changes close behind.
A practical post-expo read on Wisconsin's earlier musky opener, guide habits, and what the Upper Peninsula may indicate.
Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast's 360th episode turns the post-show-season haze into a grounded look at what an earlier musky opener might actually change.
A practical river-musky conversation about shallow jet-boat water, heavy weeds, short casts, and lures that move cleanly through cover.
River muskies set the scene, while the focus stays on deliberate choices in shallow, weed-choked water. Noah Binsfeld of Get the Net Guide Service in Minnesota explains why short casts work when fish hold in weeds, how watching ahead of a lure helps steer it around floating…
A live muskie Q&A turns fall conditions, lure speed, and river options into useful fishing talk.
Jeff opens the live stop at the Minnesota Muskie Expo by needling Brad Hoppe about retirement and newfound wealth, then the episode settles into fall muskie fishing.
A live guide panel makes a patient, electronics-first case for finding musky water before casting.
This live Minnesota Muskie Expo guide panel turns day-one conditions into a useful lesson in patience. With the crowd enjoying unusually good weather, the guides keep pulling the conversation back to a simple point: scout first, cast later.
A long-awaited musky conversation turns a stocking question into practical thinking about better lakes.
Backlash returns to Jim Sarek after a long gap for a musky-fishing conversation that begins with what has changed around his TV show and Muskie schools, then finds its center in stocking questions facing lakes.
Inside the margins of tournament bass fishing.
Regional fishing talk, lake by lake.
Field notes from serious outdoor lives.
Current conditions, fly craft, and river wisdom.
Plainspoken fly fishing from gear to culture.
The Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast broadcasts live from the Minnesota Muskie Expo with a panel of five muskie guides.
The Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast hosts Jim Saric, a musky legend last interviewed in 2019.
Live from the Chicago Muskie Expo, the hosts and guests discuss day one and share insights on choosing muskie fishing gear, particularly nets.
Jeff and Brad wrap up the 2025 season of Backlash Podcast, thanking listeners and previewing a conversation with guest Taylor Flannery.
Musky legend Steve Herbeck discusses fishing challenges in 2024 and looks ahead to 2025, ending with a debate on clear versus dark water.
Jeff and Brad interview Doug Wagner about breaking down new water and look ahead to the 2025 fishing season and the Chicago Muskie Expo.
Ryan Becker discusses early-season muskies in Iowa, where water temperatures have just reached 52 to 54 degrees and the weather has kept fish inconsistent.
Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast puts Pete Maina and Rob Manthei into a detailed discussion of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress vote on the early-season muskie opener.
Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast episode 360 centers on the Wisconsin Muskie Expo in Wausau, where the hosts describe packed aisles, strong turnout, and the end of show season.
Live from the Wisconsin Muskie Expo, the host and co-host Jeff Vannermortel discuss day one's busy crowd, popular exhibitors, and gear picks.
Austin Wigerman discusses early season muskie tactics and WAV products, with updates on Muskie Mayhem Tackle.
Host Jeff interviews Noah Binsfeld of Get the Net Guide Service about river musky fishing on Minnesota's shallow waterways, using a 150-horsepower Mercury jet-powered 1870 Crestliner flat-bottom boat to cover 10-12 miles per day.
Back Lash Podcast hosts a live panel at the Minnesota Muskie Expo with guides Isaiah Hahn (UBET Fishing Guide Services, Park Rapids MN), Doug Wagner (Green Bay and Lake of the Woods), and Aiden Freshly (Freshly Fishing Guide Service, Leech Lake), along with retired co-host Brad Hoppe, fielding audience and listener questions on topwater tactics, rubber bait hookup failures, swim bait retrieves, and fall tough-bite strategies.
The hosts of Backlash Podcast wrap up their 2025 season, thank listeners and sponsors, and introduce guest Taylor Flannery.