I'm out at the mouth of the Niagara River today, geared up with the Stingnose jigging spoons targeting lake trout. It's late December, and it's been a warm enough winter that I was able to launch the ...

Hello folks, this week we're back in the freshwater as we've geared up with crank baits, t-turns, and the SS Viper Spoon as we troll for those lovely lake trout. The day started out calm though the ...

It was meant to happen. For 32-year-old Amy LoPresti of Rochester, participating in her first fishing derby ever, it was like a dream come true. Fishing on Monday morning, Sept. 1, the final day of ...

It’s just before 8 a.m. on August 6 when the boat reaches the first gillnet of the day. I’m on Swan Lake volunteering with a recently revived effort to knock down the lake’s invasive lake trout ...

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A long in the tooth lake trout? Michigan Department of Natural Resources researchers said they determined a lake trout caught in Lake Superior in 2023 was 62 years old. The fish, dubbed Mary Catherine ...

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Researchers say that a lake trout recently captured in Lake Superior is believed to be the oldest-known specimen of its species ever caught in the Great Lakes, estimated to be 62 years old. The fish ...

The oldest known trout in the Great Lakes was found, and she has a name: Mary Catherine. Or “Grandma Mary Catherine” for the young’uns. Grandma Mary Catherine was collected for research purposes in ...

MARQUETTE, MI -- The oldest fish in the Great Lakes lived through 12 presidential elections, the first human to go to space and the rise of the internet. Meet Mary Catherine of Klondike Reef in Lake ...

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 ...