Burbot is a freshwater cod that has adapted to cold waterways like Lake Superior. The eel-like species goes by many names: ...

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 ...

Michigan DNR officials say the oldest lake trout ever recorded was found in 2023. Researchers were studying a subspecies of lake trout at a remote island in Lake Superior when they recorded the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...