OKAUCHEE, Wis. -- A pair of downy Canada goose goslings paddled across the calm water of Okauchee Lake, stopping periodically to grab a snack off the water's surface.

Mayflies hatched and fluttered in the bright morning sunshine. On shore, lilacs...

WICHITA, Kan. -- Jon Hawkinson has seen the highs and lows of Tuttle Creek Reservoir throughout the lake's 50-year history.

For most of last year and earlier this spring, he enjoyed it even though it was literally near its lowest of lows.

"That ...

PRESTON, Minn. -- Even now, aided by a walker, Mel Haugstad is surrounded by fish and fishing. Eighty-two years old and struggling with cancer since 2006, the retired Department of Natural Resources fisheries manager sat in the basement of his ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- At the age of 73, Verl Stevens is going back to the ways of his past.

He fished for crappies at Tuttle Creek Reservoir some 50 years, and still has good memories of catching stringers of big fish in no time at all.

But over ...

Newly published research has found that Lake Superior's warming water is probably already affecting its most abundant big fish.

Increasing water temperatures over the last three decades have made conditions more favorable for chinook salmon, ...

ON THE NORTH SHORE, Minn. -- The scene couldn't have been more idyllic in a purely North Shore way. On one side of the river, a rock cliff rose vertically for perhaps 40 feet. Lush cedar trees clung to the rock, defying all natural laws.

At the ...