Here’s an experience many trout anglers can relate with: You’re fishing a nice stretch of river with a finesse presentation—a nymph, a salmon egg, or a small Panther Martin spinner—when boom! Fish on!

Invasive zebra and quagga mussels are to blame for the decline. Voracious filter feeders, they siphon away the food that baby whitefish need to survive. Researchers are hard at work to find a way to ...

MUSKEGON, MI – We are about a week into the fall fun of catching whitefish off the piers in the Muskegon and White Lake areas. Avid anglers, who don’t mind the cold and late-evening fishing that comes ...

SIOUX NARROWS, Ont. -- Whatever was down there peeling line off my drag was heavy as it bulldogged back toward the bottom of the lake some 85 feet below. “Stay hooked, stay hooked,” I said, gripping ...

MUSKEGON, MI – The whitefish fishing continues to be stellar for anglers on the piers in the Muskegon and White Lake areas. In addition, perch fishing is heating up on Muskegon Lake and White Lake.

CROSSLAKE, Minn. — Anglers across the state arose Saturday, May 10, to hit Minnesota waters as the 77th Governor’s Fishing Opener in Crosslake kicked off the walleye season. “It’s not very Minnesotan ...

The Department of Natural Resources is recommending a 39% reduction in the lake whitefish quota for commercial fishers in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan but no change in Green Bay.

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On a summer night deep in the heart of Minnesota's resort country, stop in the town of Crosslake at Moonlight Bay, a onetime dance hall originally built in 1933, and now a restaurant and bar with ...