Editor Emeritus

Musky Hunter Editor Emeritus Joe Bucher is one of the most highly regarded multispecies fishing authorities in the outdoor business trade. He has been an on-camera talent for 17 years.

His television show, “Fishing With Joe Bucher,” has won multiple video production awards for excellence in videography, editing and on-camera talent.

Joe was inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Angler in 2000. He currently holds five (5) line class world records for various species of freshwater gamefish. He is considered by many of his peers to be one of the top multi-species anglers in the country.

Joe has also pioneered some of the top-selling lure design concepts in the musky fishing industry today including such products as the DepthRaider, ShallowRaider, TopRaider, Buchertail, ProFinesse Soft Plastics, SlopMaster and PowerTec bass products. He continues to design new angling products for his sponsors as well as Roberts Outdoors.

Joe has written several books on fishing including Crankbait Secrets, Bucktail Fishing For Muskies and Hunting For Muskies and Big Pike. He is also a continuing freelance outdoor writer with articles appearing in Field & Stream, Sports Afield, In Fisherman, Fishing Facts, Midwest Outdoors and North American Fisherman.

Joe is one of the most highly sought after seminar speakers for big gamefish in the country today and has been for over three decades. His sport show seminars regularly draw crowds that number in the hundreds.

He’s on the pro staffs of Gander Mountain, St. Croix, Stren Fishing Lines, Frabill, Mercury Outboards, Princecraft Boats, Remington Firearms, New Archery Products, Itasca Boots, Nikon Optics, and Roberts Outdoors.

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