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.

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 ...

massive hatches of mayflies draw trout to the surface and anglers to the river’s edge in a strange dance of predator and prey. There are nights in the month of June when I think I would rather enjoy ...

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 ...