Lake Profiles
New York’s Dutch Hollow Brook a solid Owasco Lake tributary
It’s not easy being a rainbow or brown trout in Owasco Lake.
It’s been that way for about 20 years now, as Owasco’s lake trout and walleye populations soared and those fish had a
Take note of Shawano Lake’s crappies and walleyes in Wisconsin
The 2023 DNR fyke netting and boom shocker survey of Shawano Lake and attached waters shows an improvement in the walleye population from 2018.
While still below state averages, relative abundance in Shawano, Washington,
Minnesota’s Lake Osakis defies the ‘no-such-thing-as-perfect’ notion
If there is such a thing as the perfect fishing lake, Lake Osakis might be it. This 6,389-acre system is about as fine a multi-species lake as you’ll ever find in which to drop a
Stocking of trout resumes at Big Twin Lake in Michigan’s Kalkaska County
State fisheries officials revived the trout stocking program in Big Twin in 2023 and hope anglers will now target them. In 2023, DNR Fisheries Division personnel stocked Big Twin with 9,270 rainbow trout that averaged
Crappie fishing still good on Ohio’s Delaware Lake despite 2023 fish kill
Delaware Lake, which sits just north of the city of the same name in central Ohio, is well known for its crappies.
A massive fish kill in the spring of 2023, however, put a
Catch a lot of trout and bass at Briar Creek Lake in Pennsylvania’s Columbia County
Briar Creek Lake in Columbia County is, you might say, another example of the twist on the “BOGO” concept applied to fishing.
You know how a BOGO works. Walking into a store – groceries
Fishing’s good enough and, doggone it, anglers like Stuart Lake in Minnesota’s Otter Tail County
Otter Tail County’s reputation as one of Minnesota’s premier destinations to consistently catch panfish and largemouth bass is well deserved.
There just seems to be a lot of lakes throughout this area that have
Heidecke Lake in Grundy County remains most likely to hold record muskie in Illinois
The former cooling lake located between Illinois Route 47 and Interstate 55 on Lorenzo/Pine Bluff Road certainly has more than muskies to attract anglers, as largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, crappies, walleyes, and hybrid striped bass
The Schroon River is an eastern Adirondack fishing gem
Like the Catskills, there is some fantastic stream fishing to be had in the Adirondacks, in just about any part of the 6-million acre Adirondack Park. In the eastern Adirondacks, the Schroon River serves up
