Just like the weather, Lake Erie ice doesn’t seem like it wants to leave anytime soon. ... He was catching brown trout with the odd coho salmon mixed in. Spoons and stick baits are both working.

More specifically, Coho salmon. He was recently awarded a new grant from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, “Inferring source-specific Production of adult Coho salmon to Lake Michigan”.

In 2024, anglers caught 210,891 coho salmon in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan, according to the DNR. That included 60,394 alone in the waters of Milwaukee County.

The DNR also collects eggs from fish that aren't wild. Fish kept in hatcheries will provide 378,000 brook trout eggs, 448,000 lake trout eggs, 2.6 million brown trout eggs and 1.5 million rainbow ...