Only sport fishing has been allowed for lake trout in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan since the 1950s when lake trout populations crashed, mostly due to parasitism by invasive sea lampreys.

LAKEVIEW, MI — Chad Schaub rigged a small fishing rod amid a symphony of hand augers chewing through the ice on Lake Tamarack Friday. Dropping a thin line through a icy porthole, the Morley ...

Ice fishing is serious business this weekend at Tamarack Lake in west Michigan, where international teams are going for gold Organizers are switching to catch-and-release in hopes of becoming an ...

The Northwest Michigan Fishing Club is hosting a three county ice fishing tournament. Inter-Loch-Ness allows you fish in any lake in Benzie, Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties. Competition ...

(Photo courtesy Michigan ... trout, lake trout, rainbow trout (Eagle Lake and steelhead strains), walleye and muskellunge. These are some of the stocking efforts: ≤ Marquette State Fish Hatchery ...

(Photo courtesy Michigan ... trout, lake trout, rainbow trout (Eagle Lake and steelhead strains), walleye and muskellunge. These are some of the stocking efforts: — Marquette State Fish Hatchery ...

The state boasts more than 150 species of fish, and almost all of them can be caught through the ice, the Pure Michigan website notes. Among the popular species currently in season are walleye, pike, ...

The Michigan ... white bass, cisco, lake whitefish, round whitefish and smelt. Large- and smallmouth bass, and sturgeon are not in season. The DNR posts a weekly report on fishing throughout ...

for what’s already known as the shortest fishing season in the state. Ice shanties dot the horizon as the sun rises over the frozen Black Lake in northeast Michigan. It’s only 4 degrees out ...

If you’d rather just watch, see how the pros do it at the World Ice Fishing Championship that runs through Sunday on Tamarack Lake, about an hour outside Grand Rapids. Michigan Environment Watch ...

Fish-eating gulls and ... Bay and River area of western Lake Huron; the River Raisin on western Lake Erie, and Grand Traverse Bay in northwestern Lake Michigan. The Saginaw River and Bay and ...