Fishing Lake Superior Lake Trout All Winter—Despite the Risks; Extra Effort Rewards Anglers With the best Ice Fishing; and An ...

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 ...

Lake Superior lake trout fishing in winter isn’t easy. From rare calm open-water days to sketchy ice, the rewards keep ...

Mike Ince, of Aitkin, holds up a 6.93-pound splake caught June 7 in Lake Superior off Duluth that he and other anglers originally believed was a new Minnesota state record brook trout. But DNA testing ...

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 — Lake Superior’s western waters have been hot for fishing the last couple seasons thanks to record smelt and cisco populations, the little fish that bigger fish love to eat, leading to some ...

The lake trout population in Lake Superior dropped by 95% because of overfishing and the invasive parasite, sea lamprey. Lake Superior’s top predator fish is at a sustainable population. The lake ...

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 ...

Fishery managers are declaring success in an almost 70-year effort to rehabilitate populations of a native apex predator that was almost extirpated from the largest Great Lake. Lake trout, a keystone ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The bodies of two men who drowned while taking part in a fishing competition on Lake Superior have been recovered. News 8 sister station, WJMN-TV, reports that a 21-foot ...

DULUTH — Upon further review, a fish that fooled experienced anglers and biologists alike into thinking it may be a new Minnesota state record brook trout was indeed a splake, a human-invented hybrid ...