Lake trout are denizens of the deep. For most of the year, they’re hunkered down 50 feet or more in the recesses of lakes and reservoirs, chilling out below the thermocline in colder water. To catch ...

Lake trout might be the ultimate winter trophy. A tangle with one of these denizens of the deep is not soon forgotten. Lake trout fight with spirit and are always game for a battle in winter’s cold ...

The author rallies a group of Michigan buddies for a sunny day of lake trout fishing on Michigan's Crystal Lake.

Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing so well that state biologists will use the fish to stock the species in lakes around the state, officials have announced. This fall, the Department of ...

DULUTH — As western Lake Superior's surface water warms to its highest point of the year, experts are reminding anglers to be careful of their lake trout fishing techniques, noting many fish caught ...

Acting on a tip, Duluth fisheries biologists launched their boat into Lake Superior last fall and motored to a hidden corner of the Minnesota shoreline. There, they dipped the boat’s electrofishing ...

Gray Gordon, owner of G3 Outfitters, on his boat on Flathead Lake. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) G3 Outfitters on Flathead Lake boasts a new boat for the 2025 fishing season. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter ...

There was something fishy about the competition this particular Saturday morning. Anglers lined the shore of Irvine Lake for the fourth annual Trout Fishing Derby, hoping to reel in bragging rights.

A process that could establish a commercial fishery for lake trout on the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan took another step forward Jan. 22 when the Natural Resources Board approved a preliminary ...