There wasn’t much I could do but hang on and enjoy the ride. It was Saturday afternoon, July 20, and two friends and I were fishing lake trout on Whitefish Bay of Lake of the Woods using a drop ...

Lake whitefish, members of the trout and salmon family Salmonidae, live in the Great Lakes at depths between 100 and 300 feet. They often move in schools to shallower water to feed, making them an ...

Chicagoan Mike Cyze says he has caught whitefish for years beyond Lake Michigan breakwalls on minnows, but mainly when they`re shallow in spring and fall. ... a vertically fished blade bait.

Lake Erie walleye. Human-caused changes to Lake Erie have spelled doom for certain species and proved a boon to others, including invasives. Whitefish, lake herring and lake trout have fared ...

Lonnie Liebel landed a 9-pound, 2-ounce whitefish in the tailrace waters of the Missouri River. It's the biggest ever caught ...

DNR surveys determined there were about 8,000 lake whitefish harvested at the three piers in 2019 and 2020, Wesley said. About 4,600 were harvested in 2021. Wesley said he didn't have 2023 numbers.

When is the big lake whitefish bite finally going to happen on Flathead Lake? ... The third answer is that the young perch that lure the whitefish into 50 feet of water are finally coming in, ...

Ricardo Cruz did not know what he had caught the evening of July 27 at Montrose Harbor, so his wife Angela took a photo and posted it, eventually leading to the fish being on the path to ...

By 1922, the commercial take of whitefish in Lake Michigan fell to 1.5 million pounds. In 1958, after sea lampreys and alewives decimated the lake, the whitefish catch was just 9,000 pounds.

Jim Vashro holds a lake whitefish he caught Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, on Flathead Lake. (Scott Shindledecker/Daily Inter Lake) ... We watched as they jigged their lures haphazardly.

Whitefish will generally eat the same bait, flies and lures as a trout. To fish for them, you might need some thicker waders, but you won’t have to break the bank on custom flies or lures.

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.