Big Bluegill Under The Ice
Ice Fishing

Big Bluegill Under The Ice

The North American Ice Fishing Championship (NAIFC) team of Captains Joe Pikulski and Myron Gilbert are on to something. Last year, the dynamic Michigan duo-both Great Lakes charter boat captains in the “off season”-took home […]

Invasive Pacu In Michigan
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Invasive Pacu In Michigan

The large, South American tropical fish were probably illegally dumped in the Great Lakes by pet-owners who no longer wanted to keep them in aquariums. Three large vegetarian piranhas with human-like teeth have been discovered […]

2.5 Mag Lip Is Perfect For Trout
Trout/Salmon Fishing

2.5 Mag Lip Is Perfect For Trout

The Yakima 2.5 Mag Lip is perfect for fishing trout in natural lakes, the Great Lakes and also rivers. This bait has a strong natural dive profile and will dive up to 13 feet when […]

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Panfishing on Lake Okoboji Iowa (Map)

Iowa’s Great Lakes is a chain of natural, glacial lakes located in the state’s northwest quadrant. Noted for clear water and an abundance of popular sportfish, they cover nearly 14,000 acres. Three primary lakes, Spirit, […]

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Headlines

Big Water Panfish

It’s one thing to find spring and summer panfish in a pond, creek or small lake. But what do you do when your home water is one of the Great Lakes? Or a giant reservoir? […]

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ASA/KAF – Defending the Great Lakes

We’ve all seen the funny videos of people fighting Asian carp with nets, baseball bats, and even swords.  Now it’s time to get serious. Asian carp are poised to infiltrate the Great Lakes and devastate […]

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NW PA FISHING REPORT for January 15, 2015

This Report is brought to you by PA Great Lakes Region tourism, with additional sponsorship support from Wiegel Brothers Marine (Franklin) and Gamma Fishing Line (Oil City). We answer the question “What’s biting in the […]

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Fishing News - Salt

Great Lakes in line for $300M for cleanup

Trib Live Reported 1st: Pennsylvania’s 73 miles of Great Lakes shoreline are likely to continue to receive federal funding for five years if the Senate agrees to a resolution the House passed unanimously last week. […]

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$16.7M for Great Lakes Habitat Restoration

NOAA Fisheries Announces $16.7 Million in Funding for Habitat Restoration in the Great Lakes. NOAA Fisheries is making available roughly $16.7 million, through President Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, for habitat restoration projects in severely […]

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Environmentalists Expect Anglers to Pay

First, environmental groups and their allies in California state government ignored science, chose to follow a United Nations model, and closed off vast areas for sport fishing through establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Now […]

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Plan to Protect Great Lakes

The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) has announced the release of an updated Monitoring and Response Plan (MRP) intended to protect the Great Lakes from Asian carp, and to prevent the invasive fish species […]

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Asian Carp Still A Threat

I must be traveling through another dimension. I’ve been beamed into a war zone where the Great Lakes are being threatened by approaching armies of Asian carp and there’s no agreement on how — or […]

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Boat News

Asian Carp Barrier Is Harmful

About 25 miles south of Chicago lies a stretch of water that nothing lives in. It’s not pollution or over-fishing that has wiped out nearly everything save for insects and bacteria here, it’s electricity. At […]

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Fight Against Asian Carp

No fisherman ever wants to see thousands of fish suddenly doing the backstroke … unless they happen to be Asian carp. It seems floating down Kentucky’s Cumberland River below the Lake Barkley dam were an […]

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Boat News

BoatUS $500 Cigarette Litter Clean Up

In just the past four years the BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water has helped nearly 200 marinas around the country tackle the problem of cigarette litter, and it is now looking for […]

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Asian Carp to Be Renamed in Minnesota

The Minnesota state senate Monday approved a measure that would rename the undesirable fish “invasive carp.” It’s a response to concern that the current term casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light. Senators […]

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Watch the Great Lakes Freeze Over

You can measure a winter in many ways: temperature records, snow cover, even travel delays. But to truly see how frigid this winter has been—at least for the eastern half of the U.S.—you need to […]

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Boat News

Invasive-Species Report Falls Short

In reviewing the detailed GLMRIS Report announced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on January 6, 2014 to deal with the spread of aquatic nuisance specie into Lake Michigan, the Great Lakes Boating Federation(GLBF) […]

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Asian Carp Could Be Big Problem

A tiny number of Asian carp could establish a population of the invasive fish in the Great Lakes, according to new research from the University of Waterloo. Published this week in the Biological Invasions journal, […]

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Fishing Tips

Underwater Surveillance

“I’ll never forget the first time I got a peek at the underwater world on one of my favorite lakes,” recalls Great Lakes bass pro, Joe Balog. It was the summer of 1997, and Balog […]