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

Local guides blame out-of-state contest for dwindling giant lake trout, but state officials see little threat.

Today we're out there at the mouth of Lake Ontario, doing something I normally wouldn't do until the spring: trolling for ...

We're out here on Lake Ontario looking for that Lake Trout bite. Antonio and I are going to flat line troll today - that's it, no fancy tech. Snap on a lure and start trolling. Our lure of choice for ...

Lake trout fight with spirit and are always game for a battle in winter’s cold water. Plus, they grow large. A 20-pounder is a possibility nearly anywhere they swim, and in some waters, a fish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For the first time in decades, scientists are not going to stock Lake Champlain with hatchery lake trout. That's because wild fish are finally spawning and sustaining their populations again.

After reaching a high of 99 sea lamprey woundings per 100 lake trout in 2006, the rate dropped to 23 per 100 in 2022, and has hovered around the cooperative's target of 25 per 100 for the last two ...