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Browns were exceptional throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000, brown trout fishing has experienced a sharp decline.
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Browns were exceptional throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000, brown trout fishing has experienced a sharp decline.

Abundant shoreline cover and deep-water structure support a diverse fishery at 290-acre Springfield Lake in northeast Ohio.



Map courtesy of South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks.

Map courtesy of South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks.

The bluegills and crappies in this 1,516-acre fishery northeast of Mankato are plentiful and they grow large.
“It is a self-sustaining walleye fishery and that’s kind of what our management focus is. But there’s a pretty wide aspect of species.”

Still, catfish seem to be the species drawing anglers to Carlyle Lake, the largest man-made lake in the state.
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