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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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, ...

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.

Dustin Meeter caught a 6-pound, 3-ounce lake whitefish on April 13, the latest in a long line of record changes on southern Lake Michigan.

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 ...