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  Trout: Minnesota DNR
Minnesota has two native trout species: the brook trout ("brookies") and the lake trout.
The rainbow is native to western North America and the brown is native to Germany.
A cross between a lake trout and a brook trout, called a splake, is also found in some northern lakes.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /fish/trout   (306 words)

  
 Status of Coaster Brook Trout, Ashland FRO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
With respect to brook trout, the goal of this plan is to determine whether rehabilitation of self-sustaining [coaster] brook trout stocks in the Minnesota waters of Lake Superior is feasible.
Brook trout are carnivorous, opportunistic feeders on a wide variety of organisms depending on their size and the availability of prey.
Anadromous brook trout throughout their range appear to be especially vulnerable to angling because of their habit of congregating in streams at certain times of the year for feeding, and before and during spawning.
www.fws.gov /midwest/ashland/brook   (9289 words)

  
 Minnesota Brook Trout -- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Brook trout -- named for the habitat (small streams or "brooks") in which it is found.
Brook trout are native to small, spring-fed streams in southeastern Minnesota and the St. Croix drainage.
Brook trout are highly regarded by anglers, for both the sport they provide and the taste of its meat.
www.pca.state.mn.us /kids/fish/brooktrout.html   (435 words)

  
 Brook Trout/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant
Though natural populations of brook trout reside in Lake Superior, Minnesota and Wisconsin are also stocking several thousand of these fish each year to help maintain the "coaster" variety as well as the stream-dwelling native.
Whatever the size, the brook is relatively easy to catch and has a sweet and delicate meat rivaling that of whitefish and walleye.
In Lake Michigan, where alewives and other forage fish are readily available, brook trout are spared predation by larger salmon.
www.seagrant.wisc.edu /greatlakesfish/brooktrout.html   (344 words)

  
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Managing and restoring lakes and reservoirs must include a recognition of the significance of littoral zones and macrophyte development, as well as the roles of biological interactions and feedback processes, which might combine to maintain high nutrient concentrations and plant biomass long after nutrient diversion.
The lake was restocked with piscivorous largemouth bass and walleye in a ratio of 2.2 bluegills to 1 of the piscivorous fish.
If a lake is used primarily for recreational fishing, a choice may have to be made by lake users between algal blooms and high density of centrarchid fish on the one hand, and clear water on the other.
lakes.chebucto.org /biomanip.html   (3613 words)

  
 Fishes of Minnesota-Brook trout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Brook trout are native to headwaters and small streams of northeastern and southeastern Minnesota but have been introduced to many parts of the state.
Brook trout often share this habitat with mottled sculpins, white suckers, creek chubs, brook sticklebacks, and pearl dace.
In Minnesota, the spawning season for the brook trout is normally in the autumn months, roughly October and November.
www.gen.umn.edu /research/fish/fishes/brook_trout.html   (610 words)

  
 History of Minnesota's Lake Superior
One of Minnesota's most enduring symbols is mineral wealth, specifically iron ore. As early as 1734, French adventurer LaVerendrye was told of iron west and northwest of Lake of the Woods, in what was later known as the Atikokan Range.
When Minnesota's North Shore was opened to white settlement in 1854, a stable farm economy was already developing in the southern part of the state between the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
The Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad was chartered at St. Paul in 1857, ostensibly to haul grain from southern Minnesota to the yet undeveloped port of Duluth and then down the Lakes.
www.mnhs.org /places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/mpdf1.html   (14132 words)

  
 Trout Fishing - Rainbow, Brown, Cutthroat, Brook & Lake Trout Fishing - Fly Fishing
Pure cold water is key to survival of the trouts and the brook trout is the most sensitive to temperature.
Brook trout are the native trout of the US, originally found throughout areas with cold clean water, preferably waters which never exceed 68 degrees.
Once the surface waters warm the lake trout retreats to deep water where trolling with heavy tackle is the preferred method.
www.aa-fishing.com /trout-fishing.html   (1094 words)

  
 Wired News: Geek Trip Begins at Headwaters
The most famous lake in Minnesota is not Big Dick -- it's Lake Itasca, home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
While Nicollet's argument regarding the Mississippi's source had and has merit, the now-official headwaters of the Mississippi is in Lake Itasca State Park, close to where Ozawindib and Schoolcraft placed it, in what is now Minnesota's oldest state park.
The spot that marks the source of the river, where water spills out of the lake into a pool and then flows into a small stream, was carefully dredged and nicely shaped for maximum aesthetic appeal by the Parks Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933.
www.wired.com /news/roadtrip/riverroad/0,2704,65134,00.html   (890 words)

  
 Minnesota Lake Benjamin Lake
Benjamin Lake is in lake class 20 and is managed as a stream trout lake.
Class 20 lakes are typically small, deep, soft water lakes with regular shorelines.
Fish communities in class 20 lakes can range from trout to panfish depending on management goals, and some may experience intermittant partial winter-kills.
www.invominnesota.com /lakes/benjamin.htm   (220 words)

  
 End of the Line Charter Fishing
Lake trout and Brook trout are native to Minnesota waters.
Lake Superior is home to many Lake trout and Rainbow trout, also known as Steelheads, providing a deep, cold, and clean environment to live in.
The official state fish of Minnesota is the Walleye, the prize of most Minnesota fisherman.
www.fishontheline.com   (483 words)

  
 The Great River Road :: Across Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Under a century ago, the northern forests of Minnesota were chock-full of lumber boom camps, with hundreds of mills and lumber works whining night and day, and dozens of saloons, brothels, and boardinghouses catering to the rough-and-tumble logging trade.
Cass Lake, where the native Ojibwa tribe hosts summertime powwows, is on US-2 at the western end of the forest, and includes the USFS headquarters (218/335-8600), in addition to a bald eagle nesting site.
In Minnesota this means lakes: over 400 within a 50-mile radius, with over 150 resorts or campgrounds on their shores.
www.roadtripusa.com /great_river_road/minnesota.html   (2771 words)

  
 Lake Herring/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant
In fact, as a forage fish, they were to lake trout and other aquatic predators what the rabbit has always been to land predators.
In the last century, herring provided some of the largest catches from the Great Lakes and, when salted down or smoked for preservation, provisioned much of the developing country.
However, with the alewife and smelt in decline in the 1980s, herring populations are once more thriving near the Apostle Islands and other regions of western Lake Superior, where Minnesota is stocking them.
www.seagrant.wisc.edu /greatlakesfish/lakeherring.html   (185 words)

  
 Beltrami_County,_Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Beltrami County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Portions of the Leech Lake and Red Lake Indian reservations are in the county.
Out of the total population, 21.70% of those under the age of 18 and 12.20% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Beltrami_County,_Minnesota   (347 words)

  
 Accomplishment Reports - Ashland FRO 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Brook trout inhabit the water, woodcock and songbirds depend on the riparian corridor, and gray wolves roam the area.
In Lake Constance, Central Europe, ruffe predation on whitefish eggs was identified as the key factor in the decline of that whitefish fishery.
On August 9th, eighty four adult brook trout were stocked into Whittlesey Creek, which initiated the stocking experiment and component of a long term plan with Wisconsin DNR to establish a self-sustaining population of "coaster" brook trout in Whittlesey Creek.
www.fws.gov /midwest/ashland/accom_rpts/accom03/accom03.html   (11531 words)

  
 Lake Finder: Minnesota DNR
The Lake Finder contains data for more than 4,500 lakes and rivers throughout Minnesota, including: lake surveys, lake depth maps, lake water quality data and lake water clarity data (from the Pollution Control Agency), satellite-based water clarity information (from the University of Minnesota), lake notes, and fish consumption advice (from the Department of Health).
Lake of the Woods, Lake of the Woods County: survey
Please note: not every lake in the state has been surveyed or depth sounded; you may not find the lake in which you are interested.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /lakefind   (295 words)

  
 Silver Creek Township, Lake County, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Silver Creek Township is a township located in Lake County, Minnesota.
I saw wind as far as Green's barn." " Of course he did," says one of the early part of the performance.
five or six men.html">men rode the brook," continues our philosopher, who spoken last as having been among the number.
www.city-search.org /si/silver-creek-township,-lake-county,-minnesota.html   (656 words)

  
 Park Information - Hop Brook Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hop Brook Lake is a popular day use park with swimming and picnicking facilities, athletic fields, picnic shelters and over 7 miles of hiking trails winding through the woods and fields.
Canoes, sailboards and rowboats are welcome on the 21-acre lake.
The lake and its feeder streams are stocked with trout by the State.
www.packyourgear.com /parkinfo.aspx?park=213   (86 words)

  
 Grant County Local Minnesota History and Genealogy
Douglas county to the east; Pope county at the southeast corner; Stevens county to the south and Wilkin and Traverse counties to the west.
Grant County, Minnesota 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll, Contributed to the genweb archives by Kenneth Thomas, , February 1999.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.
home.att.net /~Local_History/Grant-Co-MN.htm   (504 words)

  
 Fishes of Minnesota-Brown trout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Brown trout frequently are found living with flnosed dace, mottled sculpins, white suckers, creek chubs, common shiners, northern brook lampreys, and American brook lampreys.
In Minnesota, brown trout 250-380 mm (10-15 in) long and 1.6-2.5 kg (3.5-5.5 lbs) are fairly common in streams.
Spawning habits and seasons are similar to the brook trout, except that brown trout take 3-4 years to mature.
www.gen.umn.edu /research/fish/fishes/brown_trout.html   (640 words)

  
 Lake County News-Chronicle - Two Harbors, Minnesota
He actually thought one would go good in the lake back home so he tried to get one in the motorhome but it kept slipping out.
I dimpled the booze carefully at the edges of my lips, like a brook trout rising to a bug on the creek on a soft summer evening.
There was nothing feeble about this cold snap on this trout opener deep in the dark, unrelenting wilderness not more than a few miles from the Canadian border.
www.twoharborsmn.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=2&story_id=191942   (674 words)

  
 Zup's Fishing Resort and Canoe Outfitters, Ely, Minnesota, Lac LaCroix, Canada, bwca, Quetico
Lac La Croix is a border lake surrounded by Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) to the south, and to the north lies the pristine beauty of Ontario's Quetico Park.
Our waters are home to an abundant number of smallmouth and largemouth bass, northern pike, walleye, lake trout, crappie, sturgeon, brook trout and white fish.
Crane Lake is located off of Highway 53 North, 28 miles from Orr, Minnesota via Highway 23.
www.zupsresort.com /location.html   (334 words)

  
 minnesota sea grant - news and events
It is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center and the College of Continuing Education.
Minnesota This show, developed with the help of MN Sea Grant staff, explores the impacts that shoreland development and water use have on the state’s lakes.
Lakes are Minnesota's greatest natural resources and part of Minnesota’s heritage, yet they are fragile ecosystems that need to be handled with care if they are to survive and thrive in the future.
www.seagrant.umn.edu /news   (937 words)

  
 Clearwater County Long Lake Pk, Minnesota camping
The natural beauty of Minnesota is what attracts campers to Clearwater County Long Lake Pk, Clearwater County Long Lake Pk is a good place to enjoy the outdoors.
Sure, Lake Lomond is right next door and there are other places here than Clearwater County Long Lake Pk, for example Mud Lake.
People come from near and far to camp at Clearwater County Long Lake Pk, if you like outdoors activities Clearwater County Long Lake Pk is a good choice.
www.hikercentral.com /campgrounds/106450.html   (412 words)

  
 Tanners Brook - Forest Lake - Reviews of Tanners Brook - TripAdvisor
Minnesota: "Secluded lodging - pet allowed," (1 replies, 1:19 pm, Nov 03, 2005)
Minnesota: "Residence Inn - Eden Prairie, MN," (1 replies, 1:56 pm, Nov 02, 2005)
Explore our site to find travel information and unbiased reviews on Forest Lake tourism, hotels, restaurants, maps and much more.
www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g43077-d124578-Reviews-Tanners_Brook-Forest_Lake_Minnesota.html   (397 words)

  
 Parks and Recreation: Big Lake Township, Minnesota USA
Sand Dunes State Forest is located in central Sherburne County, five miles north of Big Lake.
Canoeing is permitted only on Battle Brook south of Little Elk Lake and on the St. Francis River south of Battle Brook.
The website was created as a public service for the citizens of Big Lake Township.
www.biglaketownship.com /pr.html   (1062 words)

  
 Park Information - Northfield Brook Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Northfield Brook Lake is a scenic day use park with a swim beach, horseshoe pits, picnic shelters, tables and fire grills located throughout the park.
The 8-acre lake is stocked with trout by the State and supports warmwater fish species.
Reservations for group picnic shelters are accepted in summer.
www.packyourgear.com /parkinfo.aspx?park=220   (90 words)

  
 CollegeSports.com
Minnesota mows down MotownThe Gophers won 86-34 and set team marks for margin of victory and points allowed.
Minnesota Women Again Face Life Without An All American
New season, same old question for the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
www.cstv.com /teams/minn   (281 words)

  
 Thatcher Lake, Burnett County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Below are the most recent reviews by Lake-Linkers for Thatcher Lake.
No Gas Motor Has Ever Been In This Lake.
If you do not have Acrobat Reader you can download it for free from Adobe.
www.lake-link.com /lakes/lakedetails.cfm?LakeID=812   (164 words)

  
 Michigan
The two parts of the state are connected by the Mackinac Bridge, one of the world's longest suspension bridges.
While Michigan ranks first among the states in production of motor vehicles and parts, it is also a leader in many other manufacturing and processing lines, including prepared cereals, machine tools, airplane parts, refrigerators, hardware, and furniture.
Michigan, Lake - Michigan, Lake, 22,178 sq mi (57,441 sq km), 307 mi (494 km) long and 30 to 120 mi (48–193...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108228.html   (521 words)

  
 Lake County News-Chronicle - Two Harbors, Minnesota
Keith Raivo takes metal pieces of what other people might call junk and turns them into recognizable, whimsical personalities for the garden.
It’s a new art form for Raivo, the Brook Park artist who has spent the past 23 years making woven wooden baskets ranging from tabletop size to large hampers.
Both the baskets and the metal sculptures will be part of Raivo’s display at Under the Spreading Walnut Tree art show, Aug. 14-15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
www.twoharborsmn.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=3&story_id=179587   (460 words)

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