Several downrigger styles are available. Electric downriggers are standard on most charter boats. An electric 'rigger deploys and reels in the downrigger weight, which may weigh 10 or 12 pounds or ...

Today we're out here in Lake Ontario flat-line trolling for lake trout. I'm using the silver/blue American Smelt model crank ...

It's late spring and we're out here on the shorelines fishing for lake trout. Spring and winter is best for lake trout, as ...

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 ...

Anglers targeting salmon and lake trout had “lots of luck” in different areas of Michigan this past week, according to state officials. “Anglers were targeting both salmon and trout this last week ...

Just one place in Michigan was seeing “excellent catches” of anything this past week, according to state officials. Boat anglers had “excellent catches of lake trout” on West Bay out of Grand Marais ...

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 ...