Among Wisconsin fish and wildlife in the 21st century, white-tailed deer and gray wolves arguably pose the greatest challenges for natural resources managers. The difficulties are less biological than ...

For more than 100 years, the UW Center for Limnology’s Trout Lake Station has been researching lakes and streams, focusing mainly on Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region. Director of the station, ...

MADISON — Looking for a shot at some open-water fishing where thin ice isn’t a problem? Wisconsin's early catch-and-release-only trout fishing season starts Saturday, Jan. 6, and includes most trout ...

After four intensive meetings this spring, including eye-opening updates on population models and total allowable catch estimates, I'd wager Wisconsinites now know more about Lake Michigan lake trout ...

Lake Superior’s trout fishing season opens Thursday for Minnesotans and Wisconsinites. Anyone who wants to fish for trout there from Dec. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023 – or until the harvest cap is met – ...

Trout Lake Station, a field station in the Northern Highlands Lake District, contains decades of data about lakes in Northern Wisconsin. This data revealed a hopeful trend in the population of ...

State biologists say a lake trout caught this month is the oldest they’ve found in northern Wisconsin in recent history. The fish caught near the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior is at least 46 years ...

With statewide temperatures projected to remain below freezing through the first week in March, the 2015 Wisconsin early trout season may be on the chilly side. The good news, state fisheries ...

Lake Superior anglers near Duluth and Superior may soon be catching a new strain of brown trout. In late May, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources stocked about 60,000 Seeforellen-strain ...

Decades of fisheries management programs led to huge improvement in the number of lake trout, which were nearly wiped out in the Great Lakes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a new kind of lake trout record that was set on Lake Michigan. They say the laker, which was caught in Wisconsin waters back in 2023, was around ...