The coded wire tag indicated the fish hatched in 1984 and was raised at the Iron River National Fish Hatchery and stocked on ...

Lake trout, a keystone predator in the Great Lakes, is “fully restored” in Lake Superior according to a binational Great Lakes Fishery Commission announcement on Wednesday, Nov. 20.

According to the International Game and Fish Association, a fish that large meant Enloe broke the world record.The largest lake trout ever, weighing in at 72 pounds, was caught by Lloyd Bull on ...

GUNNISON COUNTY, Colo. — A father-son duo in Gunnison, Colorado got the surprise of a lifetime when they reeled in the pending world record for the largest lake trout ever caught.Scott Enloe has ...

The final round of lake trout stocking in Lake Champlain in Spring 2025. Courtesy of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. A decades-long effort to increase wild lake trout stock has recorded ...

Pro Tips for Targeting Lake Trout This Winter. Begin fishing on bottom. That’s where you’ll find the warmest water in winter. Although lakers like cold water, when water temps are in the 30s ...

GUNNISON COUNTY, Colo. — A father-son duo in Gunnison, Colo., got the surprise of a lifetime when they reeled in the pending world record for the largest lake trout ever caught.Scott Enloe has ...

The Lake Superior Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission on Nov. 20 declared lake trout met the recovery milestone in most of Lake Superior. More: Outdoors calendar ...

In 2006, 99 out of 100 lake trout in Lake Champlain had sea lamprey wounds. The rate dropped to 23 per 100 in 2022 and has since hovered around the cooperative’s target of 25.

As the lake trout population has been reduced by nearly three decades of netting, Yellowstone Lake’s native cutthroat trout have slowly rebounded and gotten bigger — a lot bigger. “From the ...