Lake Profiles
Fatty forage means big muskies, walleyes, and bass in Minnesota’s Wabedo Lake
Like so many lakes in the Longville area, 1,226-acre Wabedo Lake is an excellent multi-species lake. Panfish, northern pike, and largemouth bass are all caught here with some consistency, but its muskies, walleyes, and smallmouth
‘Wipers’ remain a focus at Lake Glenn Shoals in central Illinois
DNR stocked nearly 16,000 fingerling “wipers” – a cross between a white bass and striped bass – in Lake Glenn Shoals in 2025, another step toward developing the species in the Montgomery County water.
Erwin Wildlife Management Area provides hunting and fishing just outside Corning, New York
slice – and a pretty big slice at that – of state-owned land located just a few miles from a moderately sized city pretty much guarantees the parcel will see plenty of visitors.
That’s
Panfish rule the roost on Dunn County’s Tainter Lake in Wisconsin
A DNR survey of Dunn County’s Tainter Lake in 2022 confirmed what many people already knew: Algae is a major problem on the impoundment of the Red Cedar River just north of Menomonie.
However,
Take time to figure it out, then reap Trout Lake’s rewards in Minnesota’s Itasca County
At first glance, it might appear as though anglers who fish Trout Lake near Coleraine have their work cut out for them. The lake is large (nearly 2,000 acres), with quite a bit of midlake
Redear sunfish are still thriving in Michigan’s Wamplers Lake
A stocking program in the 1990s is still paying dividends today in the Irish Hills of southeast Lower Michigan.
Wamplers Lake is located on the border of Jackson and Lenawee counties. It was stocked
Big saugeyes, bass a possibility at Lake Rupert in Ohio’s Vinton County
Lake Rupert in southeast Ohio is a bit of a hidden gem when it comes to fishing lakes in this part of the state.
Try fishing on early ice at Mauch Chunk Lake in Pennsylvania’s Carbon County
Here’s a question only time and nature will answer: After the intensely dry summer in the eastern half of Pennsylvania, were the relieving rains of October and November enough to elevate the regional lakes into
They may not be big, but fish are plentiful in Minnesota’s East Battle Lake
You typically don’t hear a lot about East Battle Lake in Otter Tail County, but it’s not because this 1,978-acre system is not a good fishing lake. East Battle just kind of gets lost in
