You can cook anything.

If you are talking live bait, a big sucker – 8 to 14 inches depending on what you can get and where you are fishing. I’ve never eaten musky but the general consensus is they are poor table fare. Most people go catch-and-release with them unless they connect with a trophy they plan to mount.

Never eat a Muskie, they take too long to mature and if rumor be true, stocked ones (which nearly all now) are to be sterile. Pike and Pickerel (grass pike) a very close cousin to the muskie are said to be excellent table fare (maybe a bit boney). I have never eaten either as I am catch and release only. Learn to tell the difference and go after Pike.

I use saltwater crank baits. Big lures = big fish.

big bucktails, and bulldawgs. But I've always heard that there is an unsaid rule that you should always release a muskie. Let someone else enjoy catching that fish.

Chuckles; In a few months it will be time to be back on the water. I can’t wait. I am making big spinners now. Last fall I hooked a big one, that threw my lure (not a good hook set). Had me shook up for an hour.

I don’t get many hits from the big guys but when I do, it is worth the 10,000 casts.

If you eat something such as a Pike,Pickerel or Muskie.. Let me warn you there are a ton of bones even though i never ate any of the 3. But try a Mepps Musky Killer or a Mepps Musky Marabou and if you want hook a minnow to the back.