
Pro Tip of the Week: Can’t find fish? Try simple techniques
When you go out and drill a bunch of holes and don’t see any fish, sometimes you just need to let things settle down and wait for the fish to come back.

When you go out and drill a bunch of holes and don’t see any fish, sometimes you just need to let things settle down and wait for the fish to come back.

The weather hasn’t improved and it doesn’t look it will any time soon. But for those who can get out, ice fishing possibilities are still out there.

Prompton Lake, the 280-acre centerpiece of Prompton State Park in Wayne County, is home to bluegills, black crappies and yellow perch. There are sparkly pumpkinseeds, too. Green sunfish are rare, but they’re also available.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced on Monday afternoon that a huge northern pike caught on Mille Lacs Lake this winter has been certified as a tie with the current catch-and-release state record.

Tracking Chinook movement is one aspect of an ongoing Great Lakes mass marking program done cooperatively with almost a dozen state and federal agencies across five states. There are up to 20 people working on

Michigan Department of Natural Resources Lake Michigan stocking plans announced earlier for 2023 are moving forward, and the fish in the hatcheries are being raised to make that happen, says Jay Wesley, Lake Michigan basin

This spot had a significant amount of observed angler activity during the morning hours.

Ken Osika doesn’t wet a line that often, but ironically he’s probably seen more fish in a given week than most ardent anglers see in a lifetime.
While he only occasionally grabs a fishing

These crappies, bass, or other odd-colored specimens aren’t a new species or remnants of a long-ago, thought-to-be-extinct population.
These fish exist due to genetic aberrations – as do albino fish or melanistic (all-black) fish.
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