Lake Profiles
Lac Vieux Desert’s history extends beyond good fishing in Gogebic County, Mich.
The impressively large and ever popular Lac Vieux Desert straddles the border of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where it sits steeped in history in Michigan’s Gogebic County and Wisconsin’s Vilas County.
Most people
Buckeye Lake in central Ohio may be the best saugeye lake in the state
When it comes to saugeye lakes in the Buckeye State, Buckeye Lake in central Ohio may be right at the top.
Buckeye Lake is the third largest inland lake in Ohio at 2,847 acres.
Little Acme Dam a nice place to fish early summer in Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania is blessed to have many small impoundments scattered across the state where an angler can make a quick trip to wet a line and catch some fish. One of those in the western portion
Muskie growth rates still in focus at Lake McMaster in Knox County, Ill.
Put aside all other fish data gathered by the Illinois DNR and consider the agency’s ongoing effort to monitor growth rates for muskies in Lake McMaster.
Muskies have been tagged in the Knox County
Lake Tetonka in Minnesota’s Le Sueur County: lots of ‘lake fish,’ with added river effect
Lake Tetonka is sure to please the multi-species angler. As part of the Cannon River system, this Le Sueur County fishery seems to hold a little bit of everything – the typical lake suspects and
Fishing ‘solid’ on this Adirondack campground water — Lake Harris (or is it Harris Lake?)
Is it Lake Harris, or Harris Lake? That depends on whom you ask about the 300-acre multi-species fishery in Newcomb, Essex County. Even the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mixes things up when
Try Waushara County’s Big Silver, Irogami for bass and bluegills in Wisconsin
The Wautoma DNR fisheries team ran a comprehensive netting and shocking survey on Big Silver Lake in 2021 and a one-night electrofishing survey of adjacent Irogami Lake in the spring of 2023. The Irogami survey
Lake Washington’s bass rising to prominence in Meeker County, Minn.
At more than 2,400 acres, Lake Washington is the largest fishery in Meeker County. It’s long been known as one of the better overall fishing lakes in this area, with a reputation that entails years
Algonquin Lake offers mixed bag for adventurous anglers in southern Michigan
Barry County’s Algonquin Lake is a sleeper for Michigan’s anglers. Although it’s not known for producing trophy-sized fish, it does have healthy bass, pike, and panfish populations and – for a couple of reasons –
