May is a great time of year to fish for trout and salmon in the Rangeley Lakes region. Trolling on Rangeley, Mooselookmeguntic, and Richardson Lakes can be productive as soon as ice goes out.

Splake are popular in some regions. They are a hybrid between a brook trout and a lake trout and resemble lake trout, but with a square tail instead of the forked tail characteristic of lakers.

An additional 422,000 splake eggs (brook trout and lake trout hybrid) will also be collected from captive broodstock to support Michigan’s fisheries management objectives.

The station stocks approximately 555,000 lake trout, splake, brook trout, brown trout, and rainbow trout into 270 waterbodies. The majority of fish are stocked in Fisheries Management Zones 10, 14, 11 ...

Splake — a hybrid cross between lake trout and brook trout — have been stocked in Lake Superior most years since 1971, with annual stocking since 1990.

Also stocked were 2.4 million walleye spring fingerlings at 61 inland lakes and rivers and Lake Michigan. Locally, about 120,000 fish (walleye, splake, brown trout, rainbow trout) were stocked in ...

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.

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

In salmon waters, set the shiner just a few feet under the ice. If targeting trout, try bait on the bottom as well as midway up in the water. Splake can be jigged like their close cousin the lake ...