Lake Profiles
Minnesota’s Lake Minnewashta awash in northerns, largemouths, people
Because it’s in part surrounded by city and county park land, Carver County’s Lake Minnewashta can be a busy place during the open-water season.
Muskie management maintains fishery on Michigan’s Thornapple Lake
Most of Michigan’s muskie lakes are in the northern Lower and Upper peninsulas – well, except for the best of them all: Lake St. Clair. Southern Michigan really isn’t considered a muskie haven. Barry County’s
Ohio’s Pleasant Hill known for saugeyes, smallmouths
“It gets a lot of recreational boat traffic,” said Brian Kinter, a fisheries biologist for the ODNR Division of Wildlife in Findlay.
For big bass, pickerel in the Poconos, it’s Shohola in PA’s Pike County
At 1,137 acres, this is my trophy lake in the Poconos. It’s a long way up there, a long way to get there from most anywhere, but it’s worth the effort when the slot machine
Anglers smitten with Wildcat and Big Kitten? Why not?
Any fisherman driving to northwestern Vilas County is most like going to be driving north, or maybe from the west.
Crappies are tops, but ’eyes aplenty in Betrami’s Moose
According to Andrew Wiering, DNR Fisheries specialist in Bemidji, 60% of the crappies sampled two years ago were over 10 inches in length. There also were bigger crappies in the mix, topping out at just
There’s no dearth of walleyes in Minnesota’s White Earth Lake in Becker County
Smallmouth bass have always been part of the mix in White Earth, but they really started showing up in bigger numbers during the 1990s.
Bass, panfish provide the top action on Michigan’s Stringy Lakes
“Largemouth bass have historically grown slower in the Stringy Lakes Chain and that continued … with a mean growth index of -0.5 (below the state average).
Ice fishing good but different on Pennsylvania’s Nockamixon, Towhee
Nockamixon is a giant at 1,450 acres while Towhee, at just 48 acres, is like the small bird with the same name.