ELY, Minn.-It took all of about 15 seconds for things to get exciting on a recent Tuesday morning."Someone want to get that?" Steve Foss asked as the fishing rod bounced to the beat of a lake trout ...

Ely, Minn. What we are looking for, says Steve Foss, is a window. We are sitting in our solo ice-fishing shelters on Burntside Lake near Ely, jigging for lake trout. We have been jigging for several ...

The Minnesota Department of Fish and Widllife officially confirmed the state’s newest laker record on Monday. The 43.25-inch lake trout caught by Isaiah Bartlett in March surpassed the state’s ...

Wednesday was a cold, cloudy, and slightly windy morning on Lake Superior. But charter captain Ethan Waytashek left the Twin Points public boat ramp confident he and his client Isaiah Bartlett were ...

Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing so well that state biologists will use the fish to stock the species in lakes around the state, officials have announced. This fall, the Department of ...

Lake trout might be the ultimate winter trophy. A tangle with one of these denizens of the deep is not soon forgotten. Lake trout fight with spirit and are always game for a battle in winter’s cold ...

3/20: Jeff Makela, of Superior, caught this 28-inch native brown trout from a small spring pond in Bayfield County. It was caught July 19, 2025, after a morning rain storm. "I hope to share the story ...

DULUTH — As western Lake Superior's surface water warms to its highest point of the year, experts are reminding anglers to be careful of their lake trout fishing techniques, noting many fish caught ...

Question: I have heard that you can catch trout in the Cuyuna mine pits. Are these native trout? Answer: Yes, there are trout in the old iron mine pits near Crosby, but most of the trout are not ...