The Latest Breaking News from Lake Superior

Michigan researchers find 1914 shipwrecks in Lake Superior

Michigan researchers say they have found the wreckage of two ships that disappeared into Lake Superior in 1914 and hope the discovery will lead to a third vessel that sank at the same time

The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2023

Dennis Anderson: Wading into fly fishing in Minnesota in 10 easy steps

With his wife, Jade Thomason, Carl Haensel operates Namebini, a fly-fishing guide service headquartered in Duluth that specializes in rivers along the north and south shores of Lake Superior. Together the couple recently published a comprehensive book, "Fly Fishing Minnesota," which offers detailed information about how and where to fly…

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2023

150-year-old shipwreck with ‘checkered past’ discovered at bottom of lake

The Nucleus, a ‘bad luck barquentine’ ship that had sunk twice and once rammed and sank another ship, has been found on the bed of Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast

The Independent UK · Feb 12, 2023

Lake Superior cisco population may be rebounding

DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Lake Superior fisheries team got some good news when they were out trawling on the big lake in October: The number of small cisco — commonly called herring by folks along the North Shore — were way up.

Tribune News Service · Nov 30, 2022

Isle Royale considers how to manage busy campgrounds at iconic national park

DETROIT — The campgrounds at Isle Royale National Park can get so crowded campers have to share sites with strangers, trek further into the wilderness to pitch their tent or pile into designated "overflow" sites with other visitors to the prized island park in Lake Superior.

Tribune News Service · Nov 7, 2022

A trip to coastal Maine brings to mind Lake Superior's North Shore — to an extent

Overheard while boarding the flight home from Portland to Minneapolis:

Tribune News Service · Oct 10, 2022

Dennis Anderson: Special group, including Bud Grant, helped launch Pheasants Forever 40 years ago

DULUTH, Min. – This northern Minnesota city never looks better than when viewed from a boat on Lake Superior, preferably while fishing. This is particularly true at dawn, when the rising sun basks Duluth in a low-angled glow that ascends its steep hillsides gradually, in luminous panels.

Tribune News Service · Aug 24, 2022

With its new ship Octantis and expeditions among the Great Lakes, Viking aims to get cruising down to a science

Our pilot stood on the roof of the yellow submarine named John, floating beside a Lake Superior islet where cliffs rise straight from the water and end in a shock of pines.

Tribune News Service · Aug 22, 2022

Underwater and on the surface, drones study Lake Superior's small fish

ASHLAND, Min.. — Drones will be patrolling Lake Superior for the next few weeks — some underwater, some on the surface — trying to document how many little fish live in the big lake.

Tribune News Service · Aug 10, 2022

St. Louis River anglers wonder where the big walleyes have gone

ON THE ST. LOUIS RIVER — Chris Edquist grabbed the fishing rod out of the holder and pulled back just enough to see how big the bend was.

Tribune News Service · Jun 22, 2022