The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) stocks fish in Michigan waters every year, providing fishing opportunities and helping maintain healthy ecosystems.

Some fishing spots are good, and some are legendary. Whether you're looking for deep-sea adventures, trophy-sized bass, or ...

Today we're out on Lake Ontario, it's late April, and the water temp is 42F. We're trolling with lead core line fishing for salmon. We're opting for simple low-tech fishing today: line, and an ...

Data from Lake Michigan sport anglers and fisheries biologists showed a decline in chinook weights in 2025, raising concerns that stocking might have to be reduced in coming years.

Eli Imadali / OPB The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering lowering Detroit Lake to its lowest levels ever, starting in the fall of 2026. It’s part of an effort to help threatened Chinook ...

For more than three decades, Great Lakes fisherman Richard Boda has kept a handwritten logbook of his time on the water — a legacy to the son and daughter who would one day inherit the family business ...

Lake Michigan is at the warmest temperature for Oct. 9 dating back 30 years. The dataset for good, high resolution, surface water temperatures dates back to 1995. The year 1995 finally had satellites ...

Warm temperatures pushed Chinook salmon deeper in a few areas along Lake Michigan’s coastline. Meanwhile the salmon run started strong on the Betsie River, according to the Department of Natural ...

OSWEGO COUNTY, N.Y. — An overall dry summer in Central New York is leading to issues for the salmon fishing season in Oswego County According to the New York State Department of Conservation or NYSDEC ...

If you plan on hooking a world-class Atlantic salmon in heavy current, you better have your boots laced. Just ask the fly fisherman in the video below, who ran roughly a mile down a river in Norway ...

“Excellent numbers of Chinook salmon” were reported in some Lake Michigan harbors like Frankfort while others are just starting to see salmon season's bounty. The Department of Natural Resources’ ...

People from elsewhere – Columbus, as one example – arrive in numbers at the Michigan town of Ludington to sample fish from elsewhere. Not native but prospering are Lake Michigan’s salmon, comprising ...