A Pennsylvania angler caught his ‘unicorn’ fish Sunday in Erie. Colton Alex, 18, of Erie, was fishing in a tournament in Lake Erie when he hooked into a large Atlantic Salmon.

Mark Haffley, a biologist for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, told GoErie that Atlantic salmon are rare in Lake Erie and that they’ve seen some each year caught in the tributary fishery.

A teen fishing in a walleye/steelhead tournament thought he had hooked a big steelhead, but once the fish was boated, he quickly realized it was a salmon species that was out of place in Lake Erie.

The state record for pink salmon is held by David A. Rabatin, who landed a 4-pound 8-ounce fish in 1995 in Elk Creek in Erie County.. Davis said he has hooked other pink salmon over the years, but ...

An 18-year-old reeled in a "unicorn fish" while out on Lake Erie during a fishing tournament in Pennsylvania. Captain Joe Nemet of Nemesis Sport Fishing was there for the catch.

But, thanks to a record crop of cisco and smelt for salmon and trout to eat, coho have been growing larger the last two summers, well over 3 pounds in many cases, including new Minnesota state ...

Lake Erie: Yellow perch reports were starting to come in, with a few boats getting 15 to 20 fish, ... Anglers who got on the water found some success in catching lake trout and coho salmon.

It all began for me back when Pennsylvania introduced Coho salmon into Lake Erie in the late ‘70's. My dad and I would enter the marina in 1979 and see those charter boats with big Coho salmon ...

Coho salmon draw anglers to the southern waters of Lake Michigan for a traditionally strong bite in late spring and early summer. Paul A. Smith Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...