The study, spearheaded by a federal research office that the Trump administration has since dismantled, shows fish responded ...

Expanding underwater spearfishing in Michigan would open up more of the Great Lakes and broaden the kinds of fish that anglers could harvest. But wildlife regulators must first decide whether to ...

Spearfishing for walleyes and other game fish has slowly been gaining traction in the Great Lakes, and starting April 2026, the sport will enter a new phase there. In November, after years of input ...

Some might call it sacrilegious. But for Jon Durtka, the outcome of spearing a keeper walleye in Lake Huron isn’t that much different than catching one with a rod-and-reel for the cooler. Targeting ...

Editor's Note: To help ring in the spring steelhead season, we opened up one of the most controversial conversations within the steelhead community: Wild vs. Great Lakes fish. And when we say "wild," ...

On this episode of Great Lakes Now, explore a project on a Michigan river that keeps undesirable fish away. Then take a canoe out onto the Au Sable River to […] ...

A study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research used preserved whole lake trout and walleye samples to measure the ...