The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

Trout waters -- There are a number of good lake trout lakes in the Ely area. Lac La Croix, Basswood, Knife and Ottertrack, along the border, are traditionally good trout waters in the Boundary Waters ...

Lake trout remain tangled in nets aboard a Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa boat at Knife River Marina in Knife River, Minn. The harvest was part of the band’s effort to reclaim traditional ...

Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing so well that state biologists will use the fish to stock the species in lakes around the state, officials have announced. This fall, the Department of ...

Ely, Minn.--The dogsled creaks and hisses over the snow. Buzz and Juanita, our lead dogs, have the nine-dog team stretched out and pulling hard over the ice of Ensign Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe ...

Wildlife officials have revealed a milestone fish caught on Lake Michigan. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an angler from Sheboygan caught a 35-inch, 16-pound lake trout in 2023, and ...