#lake trout

[vintagecamping]

A father with his 2 sons show off the morning's catch.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming 1964

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #215

Lake trout!

Depending on their environment, lake trout can be either planktivores or piscivores! Planktivorous lake trout are usually more abundant and grow slower, while piscivorous lake trout are fewer in numbers but grow quicker.

[johnschneiderblog]

Lake trout reclaim Huron

After catching this lake trout Friday night, I'm one and one this season - one salmon and one lake trout - but it's unlikely that ratio will hold.

Non-native Chinook salmon - planted in the Great Lakes to control an overabundance of non-native alewives - have become scarce in northern Lake Huron.

Even in the heyday of the salmon fishery here, the experts were predicting a collapse of the salmon population. They said native lake trout, displaced by salmon as the Alpha fish, would eventually prevail.

They were right. As the alewives began to disappear, the Chinook followed. Now order has been restored and lake trout are back on top.

In the long run, Nature always wins.

[crows-with-ink]

Midwest fish series! The famous Lake Trout: these were the pride of the Great Lakes until the invasion of the sea lamprey. The toothy eel-like lampreys were stowaways in ships that came through the St Lawrence seaway and released their ballast into the lakes before picking up cargo. The trout population plummeted and they almost went extinct before the lampreys were reined in; today they don’t naturally breed in Lake Michigan; instead, they’re bred in captivity and then “planted” for fishing. They still have a hold in Lake Superior, due to it being cold and deep as hell.

[captainpirateface]

Love,

[betweenapitchandacast]

Reel-in These 5 Species in Your Next Ice Fishing Trip (+ One You Don't)

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and no, it’s not because of Christmas. It’s because the waterways that you were bobbing up and down in just a few months ago are now covered in a layer of ice! However, heading out into freezing temperatures to drill a hole in the ground and jigging some brightly colored lures might seem odd to some. There is an inexplicable reason why many opt to pursue…

[swanwolfmom]

I'm currently working for the US fish and wildlife service as a field technician. An angler brought us a giant lake trout that's easily 25+ years old. It's very humbling to hold a fish as old as myself or older. Idk how I can describe it like....this fish was trying its hand at fishing while I was doing the same thing. I wish I could be more poetic about it.

[fearless-franklin]

First Fish 🐟 Of The Season.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“TWO NEEDED TO LAND GIANT TROUT,” Toronto Star. March 1, 1933. Page 18. ---- A giant lake trout, thought to be the largest caught in Lake Simcoe in many years, was landed by William Warren, Thora township, and Angus King, Celina St., Oshawa, who is shown above holding the fish. It weighs 21½ pounds, is 40 inches long with a girth of 24 inches.

[reconrix]

Fresh caught dinner!

[plusie]

[zombilenium]

Hotel Ponale, Biacesa, Lake Garda, Italy

It has been dubbed 'Casa della Trota' (which translates as 'Trout House') and has been left to rot for more than two decades.

[critterzstimz]

Me irl btw (I am THE coastal sea wolf.) - mod🐕‍🦺

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[johnschneiderblog]

The anatomy of fishing

I had my lines in the water at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday, just as the the sun broke the surface of Lake Huron.

I headed north, into 150 feet of water, guessing that the lake trout would still be deep. I was mistaken, or maybe just in the wrong deep water; there’s a lot of it out there. I trolled for two hours or so without so much as a glance my way and only the radio news, two tangerines, a granola bar and a thermos of decaf to occupy me.

Oh, well ...  we had the chicken ... we could eat the chicken for dinner that night. With fishing, it’s always good to have a Plan B. 

I headed back to shallower waters. At 80 feet my middle rod jerked downward and, just like that, I had a decent-size lake trout on the line. As I played that fish, a second rod bounced; suddenly, I had a frenzy on my hands.

I landed both fish - not elegantly, perhaps, but when it was all over, they were in my cooler.

A man named John Buchan once put it this way: “The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”

It’s all that plus an occasional wild ride.

[grahamcore]

rip will graham you would have loved animal crossing

[annapolisrose]

Yellow Hat.