The code written on the tag revealed that the trout was 39 years old, marking it the Great Lakes Mass Marking Program’s ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff scanned the fish’s coded wire tag and traced it back nearly four decades. It had been ...

Lake trout fight with spirit and are always game for a battle in winter’s cold water. Plus, they grow large. A 20-pounder is a possibility nearly anywhere they swim, and in some waters, ...

Five trout swimming in Big Bear Lake have been tagged and marked as $10,000 grand prize winners. During the derby, any angler who reels one in will receive the prize money.

Tons of pounds of rainbow trout have been reintroduced into Lake San Antonio by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, allowing people to fish in the lake again after a large die-off ...

Norris Lake was ranked the No. 3 best lake for swimming in the country in the 2025 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards, outranking three of the Great Lakes also on the list. 10BEST noted the ...

Once spawning season is over, they swim back out into the open waters of the great lake. There had only been two known small populations of brook trout that lived all their days and spawned in the ...

Each season, the William Jack Hernandez Sport Fish Hatchery and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game stock approximately 200 bodies of water, equating to about 7 million fish of various species. One ...