A chronicle about the expert anglers and less famous but older muskie frontier of West Virginia's rivers. The state's muskie program began in 1965 with the initiation of a muskie life history study, under the guidance of Bob Miles and his staff. The stories within are an accounting of how the state's DNR, with the cooperation of its muskie anglers and the Corps of Engineers, established plans and goals to provide for, protect and promote the state's native and non-native muskie streams and lakes to trophy status, assuring a future for generations to come. To date, West Virginia's muskie fishery ranks very high on the list of states with trophy muskie populations available to anglers.