Around Labor Day, salmon started their move from Lake Michigan into various river systems, like the Manistee, Pere Marquette, Au Sable, Platte River and Grand River. "Salmon season is going full ...

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 ...

Big Chinook salmon are showing up along with some coho, steelhead and lake trout. Fishing has been good lately, with action coming in 55 to 200 feet of water and fish hitting 30 to 70 feet down in the ...

Wesley said that a recently run predator-prey ... from 650,000 to 1 million spring fingerlings is a modest increase compared to the estimated 4.5 million wild Chinook salmon in Lake Michigan ...

The DNR also collects eggs from fish that aren't wild. Fish kept in hatcheries will provide 378,000 brook trout eggs, 448,000 lake trout eggs, 2.6 million brown trout eggs and 1.5 million rainbow ...

Lake Michigan features a world-class salmon and trout fishery. The fishery was rebuilt after it had been ravaged by invasive species in 1950s and 60s.

It's the heaviest trout or salmon caught in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan and weighed on a certified scale since July 12, 2010, when Roger Hellen of Franksville caught a 41.5-pound brown ...

More specifically, Coho salmon. He was recently awarded a new grant from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, “Inferring source-specific Production of adult Coho salmon to Lake Michigan”.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently collected nearly 6.5 million wild coho salmon eggs in less than three weeks. The coho salmon eggs were collected from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1 at the ...