Fish fins diagram (Michigan DNR) “If you’re fishing for splake on Lake Superior this fall, we encourage you to talk with DNR creel staff, who are scheduled through the end of October,” said ...

That shoreline accessibility is really a cool opportunity," said DNR fisheries biologist Cory Kovacs. The Marquette State Fish Hatchery stocks all the Great Lakes with about 100,000 marked splake.

Marked splake have been central to that stocking effort since 2021, as part of an evaluation study. At the Marquette State Fish Hatchery in Michigan’s central Upper Peninsula, staff from the DNR ...

Many anglers say fall fishing for splake on Lake Superior is an experience unparalleled anywhere else in Michigan. When temperatures begin to drop and leaves start to turn, the splake bite picks ...

Fall means popular splake fishing on Lake Superior. And the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is asking anglers to help them understand better how the fish live in the largest Great Lake ...

Mike Ince, of Aitkin, holds up a 6.93-pound splake caught June 7, 2024, in Lake Superior off Duluth that he and other anglers originally believed was a new Minnesota state record brook trout.

News Lake Superior anglers asked to report marked splake to help DNR create nearshore fishing opportunities Updated: Mar. 06, 2023, 1:44 p.m. | Published: May. 13, 2022, 12:42 p.m.

The DNR wants anglers to report when they catch a marked splake so they can monitor the percentage of stocked fish caught by anglers, the home range of place and harvest metrics. “The data we ...