An angler fishing last Sunday on a charter boat based in Algoma, Wisconsin, reeled in a Lake Michigan rarity — a salmon that eclipsed the 40-pound mark. Brian Sollars of East Bethel, Minnesota ...

An angler fishing last Sunday on a charter boat based in Algoma, Wisconsin, reeled in a Lake Michigan rarity — a salmon that eclipsed the 40-pound mark. Brian Sollars of East Bethel, Minnesota ...

Lake Michigan trout and salmon fishing has been outstanding this summer. I spoke with a few people this past week, and they are all doing very well on the big pond. Many limit catches have been ...

An angler fishing last Sunday on a charter boat based in Algoma reeled in a Lake Michigan rarity — a salmon that eclipsed the 40-pound mark. Brian Sollars of East Bethel, Minnesota, was fishing ...

Much of the best fishing now is in 80 to 130 feet of water in Lake Michigan off of Muskegon and Whitehall. Some 17- and 18-pounders have been caught in recent days.

The DNR announced plans Monday, Sept. 12, to increase the number of chinook, or king salmon, stocked in Lake Michigan from 650,000 to 1 million — a 54 percent increase.

This spring, the Department of Natural Resources stocked Lake Michigan with one million chinook salmon. It’s the high point of years of growth in the lake. In 2022, the DNR put in 800,000 salmon.

This year’s Salmon-A-Rama Lake Michigan Fishing Contest will likely be a test in patience — and luck. SAR chairman Jim LaFortune said Wednesday that conditions on Lake Michigan will be less ...

This year's DNR Lake Michigan stocking goals are 1.3 million chinook salmon, up from 1.2 million in 2020-22, as well as 500,000 coho salmon, 460,000 steelhead, 450,000 brown trout and 50,000 brook ...

was excellent; Lake Huron not so good| By ZACHARY M. "This was the best chinook fishing in many years - possibly, the best ever," said Jim Fenner, president of the Ludington Area Charter Boat ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it is seeing good indicators that a modest stocking increase of Chinook salmon populations is needed in Lake Michigan.

Lake Michigan trout and salmon fishing has been outstanding this summer. ... 2022, and Aug. 31, 2023, and were judged by members of the Kentucky Press Association.