Lake Profiles
Try Bedford County’s Yellow Creek for trout in Pennsylvania
A tributary of the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River, Yellow Creek in Bedford County is a free-flowing limestone-influenced stream that can provide great opportunities for trout and a few other species.
Clearwater Lake: Come for the lakers, stay for the scenery in Minnesota’s Cook County
Located about 40 minutes from Grand Marais, Minn., up the Gunflint Trail, Cook County’s Clearwater Lake is a deep, cold Canadian Shield system. It’s also one of the clearest lakes in this area, and partially
Northern pike still stars of Wolf Lake in Cook County, Illinois
The Illinois DNR mostly has scaled back on the stocking of northern pike, but Wolf Lake’s status as a solid pike lake makes it an exception.
In 2023, biologists stocked 964 northerns in Wolf
New York’s Delta Lake is a productive Mohawk River impoundment
New York’s reservoir system dates back to the industrial age of the Nineteenth Century. This is a time when drinking water, navigation, the lumber industry, flood control and in some cases, hydro-power, were the driving
Wisconsin’s Day, English lakes have unusual 28-inch muskie size limit
Day Lake and English Lake are two Wisconsin waters that carry an unusual muskie size limit in that anglers are encouraged to keep muskies longer than 28 inches. Both lakes are in Ashland County near
East Lost and Deer lakes: smaller versions of Otter Tail Lake in Minnesota
The Otter Tail River provides an opportunity for its various fish species to move freely between all lakes in this system.
Trout stocking ends on Roland, Gerald lakes in Michigan; focus on panfish
Anglers heading out on Lake Roland for a day of fishing get to enjoy a double-header – two lakes on which to fish with a combined surface area of 552 acres. Together, the two Upper
Ice or not, it’s catch and release fishing on Minsi Lake in Pa.’s Northampton County
If Mother Nature would only follow deadlines like outdoor writers must, then we all would know if there’s going to be fishable ice this season instead of it remaining a guessing game.
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Mosquito Creek Lake struggles on walleyes, good for bass in Ohio’s Trumbull County
Walleyes have seen better days at Mosquito Creek Lake in Trumbull County.
The 7,850-acre lake is currently in the middle of a cyclical downturn in terms of its walleye population, said Curt Wagner, fish
