The DNR will hold a Feb. 13 hearing on a proposal to establish a commercial fishery for lake trout on Lake Michigan.

BLACK LAKE — Fishing enthusiasts will descend on Black Lake in Cheboygan County on Feb. 1 for the opportunity to spear and celebrate the giant of the Great Lakes. The Michigan lake sturgeon ...

Only sport fishing has been allowed for lake trout in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan since the 1950s when lake trout populations crashed, mostly due to parasitism by invasive sea lampreys.