Baked Muskellunge - Muskie - Musky - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 -14 lbs Muskellunge, cleaned and scaled (pike can also be used)
1 cup butter
salt and pepper, to taste (lemon pepper is wonderful in baked fish)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350F and grease a baking pan.
Clean and rinse fish thoroughly.
Rub with butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Place fish in prepared pan and bake, allowing 10 minutes for each pound.
It may be necessary to baste the fish if it is sufficiently large to require more than one hour.
Use 2 tablespoons butter in one cup of water and baste every twn minutes if necessary to prevent fish from drying out.