Genetic mapping boosts hopes for restoring prized lake trout
It’s being lauded as “a vital missing link in our efforts to restore lake trout.”
Lake trout
Finish the laker season in style with precision trolling
Keep your lures in ‘the zone’ when cruising for Lake Superior lake trout.
Natural reproduction of lake trout in Lake Erie
Jason M. Robinson, the leader of Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit (left), and James L. Markham, fish biologist with the Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit, tag lake trout on Lake Erie in 2017, leading to discovery of the lake trout fry. (Photo courtesy of the NYSDEC)In a major announcement within the world of fishing, the New York Department of Environmental…
New lake trout regs for Lake Michigan, Green Bay
DNR has restored the previous recreational regulations.
New lake trout bag limit for Lake Michigan effective Jan. 1
The open season will now run from Mar. 1 to Oct. 31 with a new daily bag limit of two lake trout. Previously, regulations included a year-round season with a daily bag limit of five lake trout.
Agency: Record Lake Champlain lake trout a testament to successful sea lamprey control efforts
The 36.5-inch laker weighed 19.36 pounds, the largest lake trout from Lake Champlain entered in the Record Fish Program since the department started keeping fish records in 1969.
Lake trout take upped in portions of Huron, Michigan
Managers are confident that restoring the daily possession limits to their former levels won’t result in overfishing in either lake trout management unit.
Monster lake trout bests state record – by nearly 10 pounds
The 37.7-pound fish might have been around when the previous record lake trout, a 28-pounder, was caught in 1958.
Hard-water hopes for lake trout through the ice
More than any other type of ice fishing, this angler would much rather spend a day on the hard water either running and gunning or setting out tip-ups in hopes of landing a pair of keeper lake trout.
Dredging effort planned to benefit fish habitat on Lake Superior harbor
Copper mining waste rock known as stamp sands have built up in an Upper Peninsula waterway and threaten an important whitefish, lake trout spawning area.
Breaking BWCAW ice for opener lake trout
The author learns that targeting ice-out lake trout sometimes requires navigating through North Country icebergs, but fresh lake trout fillets make it all worthwhile.
Yellowstone biologists finally making headway against invasive lake trout
Twenty-four years of gillnetting operations are starting to turn the tide with a reduction of lake trout numbers.
Lake trout limit reduced on Grand Traverse Bay
At last week’s meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission in Lansing, commission acted to reduce daily possession limit of lake trout in these waters from two fish to one. Change was necessary because 2018 recreational harvest limit for lake trout in Grand Traverse Bay was exceeded.
Yellowstone effort to eradicate lake trout shows progress
The effort against the lake trout is the centerpiece of a long-term fight to help Yellowstone’s native cutthroat trout. Lake trout feed on cutthroats, causing the native fish population to decline.
Yellowstone lake trout mystery: The work of an environmental vandal or did the fish swim there?
Yellowstone Lake chief fisheries biologist investigating a case of trespass not transport after seeing how fish are invading high-elevation lakes in Glacier National Park.
Efforts to protect crucial Lake Superior fish spawning area go before the public
(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo)LAKE LINDEN, Mich. — A campaign to protect a crucial Lake Superior fish spawning area gets underway this week. A public meeting on Buffalo Reef is scheduled for 6 p.m. today (Tuesday, Jan. 30) at Lake Linden-Hubbell High School in Houghton County. Waste material known as “stamp sands” were dumped into the lake during the…
Temporary rule closes lake trout fishing on Lake Michigan
The season will reopen March 1 with a bag limit of two fish. DNR staff are currently working on additional rulemaking that would remove the closed season on lake trout and increase bag limits.
Keeping sea lamprey in check allowing lake trout to rebound in Great Lakes
State fisheries managers recently ended a trout stocking program in Lake Superior because hatchery-raised fish are no longer necessary to increase the population.
Angler’s record Utah lake trout catch deemed invalid
(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo)SALT LAKE CITY — An Idaho man who caught a record-setting trout in Utah has been told his fish does not qualify for the record anymore because he caught it without a valid fishing license. Sidney Cellan caught the 57-pound, 48-inch lake trout in June at the Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The Utah Division of Wildlife…
Study looks at what happens to lake trout when released in upper Great Lakes
To ensure accurate data is being collected on fish being lost from angling, mortality estimates must include both fish harvested and fish that are released and then die as a result of fishing.
The column Rob Drieslein’s wife didn’t want you to read in 1999
Now, in all its glory, 18 years after he originally penned the piece, a tongue-in-cheek essay comparing fishing and childbirth.
Changes made to lake trout regulations on parts of lakes Huron and Michigan
The regulation changes will result in expanded angling opportunities, including keeping the lake trout season open year-round in some locations.
Expanded lake trout harvest opportunities start April 15 in Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan
Comes after an emergency rule was approved by the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board.
NYSDEC exceeds target in steelhead egg take
Meanwhile, biologists throughout Lake Erie have been implanting acoustic transmitters in walleye to understand fish movements and how they relate to fishing effort and harvest.
Indiana ups daily bag limit on lake trout in Lake Michigan
On April 1, the limit increased from two fish per day to three fish per day, putting Indiana in sync with neighboring Michigan’s bag limit.
Lake trout bag limits expanded on Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan
Emergency rule was developed following an extensive angler engagement process that included seven public meetings with total attendance of 500.
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