Lake Profiles
Walleyes, yellow perch dominate fishery in Michigan’s Gogebic
The walleyes collected in the survey averaged just shy of 15 inches and ranged up to 30. Northern pike averaged 21.3 and ranged to 42, while smallies averaged 14.2 and ran up to 19.
Walleyes of Minnesota’s Whitewater now must share forage wealth
Whitewater is a lake with limited residential development, it’s accessible through Hoyt Lake’s city park, and it features amazingly clear water.
No stocking necessary? Cedar Island’s walleyes thriving in Minnesota’s Stearns County
Cedar Island holds good numbers of walleyes, panfish, bass, and northern pike, along with most riverine fish species, including channel catfish.
Bass, crappie, bluegills biting on Iowa’s Lake Hendricks in Howard County
Lake Hendricks in Iowa’s Howard County is a 47-acre body of water that offers anglers an opportunity to target many species into the late fall.
“Fish activity is increasing as water temperatures cool,” the
Trade lakes’ multi-species fishery getting some help in Wisconsin
The local DNR fisheries team ran a survey on Big Trade Lake and Little Trade Lake in the early spring and late spring of 2021 to assess panfish and game fish populations.
The team
Bass weighing 8 pounds signifies Lake Sara strategy in Illinois’ Effingham County
A largemouth bass that weighed a tad under 8 pounds was pulled out of Lake Sara in 2022, basically backing DNR’s strategy in 2017 to implement a protected slot limit on bass.
The 8-pounder,
New York’s Wiley Brook State Forest: Multiple-use tract in Chenango
Wiley Brook State Forest is one of those multiple-use state-owned parcels that sees a little bit of all kinds of activities all year ’round.
Without consistent forage, Minnesota’s Lac qui Parle Lake walleye numbers variable
Lac qui Parle Lake is a large body of water, nearly 5,600 acres, which is basically a flood-control impoundment of the Minnesota River in the western part of the state.
Bass and lake trout lure anglers to Lake Fanny Hooe in Michigan’s Keweenaw County
Lake Fanny Hooe rests at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, just east of the town of Copper Harbor. It’s the northern-most inland lake in the state.
