Across the northern Midwestern states and Ontario, muskies have become the most popular sport fish and the highest growing angling demographic over the past two decades. In today’s era of exploitation due in large part to fishing guides, television & media, social media, and internet culture, many lakes and their historic muskellunge fisheries have become increasingly populated and pressured. Conservation enacted by special interest groups and state / province management luckily protects the overfished specimens from harvest. While stocking is able to restore historic fisheries to their former glory, supplement and maintain them, and expand the population range, it also comes with a high cost. Stocking is very tedious and expensive, and supply of fish has difficulty meeting high demand. While muskies on pressured lake fisheries throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota encounter and ignore baits several times per week, small river muskie fisheries located in obscure, wilderness reaches have become neglected and forgotten. These fisheries were meant to be kept silent and mysterious. Rivers are the most accessible public waterways in the country, and continue to be