Hello folks! Today we're out here with the Boatless Angler himself, and we're fishing Lake Ontario close to the mouth of the Niagara River, trolling in about 20 feet of water. When fishing out here in ...

With Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto of the controversial Game and Fish Bill on Tuesday, it's back to existing regulations for use of Lake Superior ciscoes and smelt as bait. A provision in the Game and Fish ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- It's an eerie look, if you're honest with yourself. Small huts, huddled together for protection from the wind, all perched atop a sharp green glow. On Saturday night, 5 inches ...

Duluth-area bait shops are finding a way around a new regulation that prohibits the use of smelt from Lake Superior as bait. The ruling went into effect last spring after VHS, or viral hemorrhagic ...

A small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

Zachary McNaughton’s father taught him how to fish at a young age, and he is passing that tradition on to his 6-year-old son, Fisher. Zachary also publishes educational fishing videos to his YouTube ...

GULL LAKE – It’s all a matter of perspective. I thought we were doing pretty well, hauling in smelt at a fairly steady rate from 70 feet of water on Gull Lake here in Kalamazoo County. But C.J. Hale ...

In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, a fisherman checks a net during a traditional winter smelt fish festival on Lusiai lake some 120 kilometers (74 miles) north of Vilnius, Lithuania.

LANSING, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has released new Eat Safe Fish guidelines for rainbow smelt and carp from seven different lakes across the state.

Ask folks to tell you what smelt tastes like, and you find out real quick it’s a tougher question than you think. Debbie Calcagni, the self-described “lunch lady” who serves up plate after plate of it ...