Lake Profiles
Get away from it all on Pennsylvania’s State Game Land 64 in Potter County
Frequently in conversations among sportsmen, the phrase “I’d like to find a place where I could get away from it all” comes up. To do that in Pennsylvania requires one to think about the Northern
Lots of bass in Minnesota’s Big Fish Lake; they’re just not very … big
The first feature that jumps out about Big Fish Lake in western Stearns County is its extremely clear water. You can typically see quite easily 15 to 20 feet down into this 557-acre lake north
Channel cats continue growth at Citizens Lake in Warren County, Ill.
Word is still out on DNR’s recent Fall 2024 survey of Citizens Lake, a small body of water with a big fish population in Warren County.
Last fall’s sampling showed an impressive channel catfish
Wilson Hill WMA – Highly regulated and highly rewarding in New York’s St. Lawrence County
Waddington and Massena, both on the St. Lawrence River, have garnered a solid reputation in the world of professional bass fishing.
Both B.A.S.S. and Major League Fishing regularly hold top-pro bass tournaments here (although
Yellowstone Lake in Lafayette County, Wis., suffering algae blooms, but fishery strong
Yellowstone Lake was surveyed by the local DNR team in 2018 and 2019 to assess the lake’s popular fishery. Although some the density for some species was down from a 2014 survey, the numbers remain
Oft visited but lightly fished, Minnesota’s Lake Itasca worth wetting a line in
Lake Itasca receives a lot of visitors each year, and the majority of them aren’t there to fish. This Clearwater County lake is most famous for being the headwaters of the Mississippi River and being
Northern pike plentiful in Kalamazoo County’s Morrow Lake in Michigan
An oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy and running beneath Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, ruptured near the town of Marshall on July 25, 2010 creating the largest on-land oil spill in
Clear Fork Reservoir likely one of Ohio’s better bass lakes
If you’re looking to catch some good size largemouth bass, anglers would be well suited to focus their efforts on Clear Fork Reservoir in north-central Ohio.
Mike Wilkerson, fish management supervisor for the DNR
Harveys Lake in Luzerne County, Pa., has big trout, walleyes and bass
There are a lot of stocked trout lakes around Pennsylvania that are full of bass. There are bass lakes that also support walleyes.
But lakes that hold all three – trout, bass and walleyes
