I like to use braided line like Sufix Performance Ice braid with a mono leader to cut down on line stretch. Lake trout aren’t line shy, so you can use fairly heavy line to handle nice fish.

We’d gone after lake trout on Lake Superior’s ice many times without serious ... We left Hancock before dawn in two pickup trucks, each loaded with a snowmobile, sleighs, and ice-fishing gear. After ...

Our winter ice fishing season has ended in a flash, with no fatalities for those anglers stranded on Lake Erie last week.

The ice fishing for 2025 is over, reports Capt. Mike Sperry with Chautauqua Reel Outdoors. Currently, the ice is not safe. It’s time to get your boat ready. Perch will be ready when you can get out ...

When Rose Thompson, of Skaneateles, went ice fishing for perch recently on the north end of Cayuga Lake she didn’t realize ...

A man from Duluth, Minnesota, caught his first ever lake trout with a guide who has a track record of finding big fish on ...

The traffic on the lakes is way down from a month ago, and there are signs that mud season is right around the corner. Grand ...

The boaters were targeting walleye, perch, lake trout, steelhead and smallmouth bass in Lake Erie ... “I’ve seen a lot of ...

We now will have to wait until the opener to catch walleyes and northern pike. That will happen May 3 for Wisconsin anglers ...

Even after ice out, anglers can pursue trout here since Hamilton Lake is managed as a stocked trout water open to year-round ...