For many anglers and environmentalists, the return of robust lake trout populations to the Great Lakes has been a hard-won battle. Decades of overfishing, habitat degradation, and the devastating ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reports that in May 2023 an angler fishing off Sheboygan caught a large 16-pound lake trout having a coded wire tag. The tag showed the fish had been stocked ...

A group fishes for salmon and trout on Lake Michigan out of Port Washington with charter captain Dan Fox. Fox is in his 52nd year as a full-time charter captain on the lake.

About 4,000 adult trout – up to 19 inches long – were recently stocked in two rivers and an inland lake in southeast Michigan, officials said. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources stocked the ...

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A recovering native fish could be part of a commercial fishery in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan if a new administrative rule is approved. The lake trout will be the subject of a commercial ...

A process that could establish a commercial fishery for lake trout on the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan took another step forward Jan. 22 when the Natural Resources Board approved a preliminary ...