Native lake trout success story in Lake Champlain: stocking to end this year
As wild population thrives, New York, Vermont and feds celebrate milestone in decades-long restoration work
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Big fish, bigger stakes: Lake Placid’s lake trout caught in derby crosshairs
Local guides blame out-of-state contest for dwindling giants, but state officials see little threat
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Lake trout at risk
By Mike Lynch
Climate change threatens to reduce the cold-water habitat preferred by this Adirondack native By Mike Lynch In one traditional method of lake-trout fishing, an angler holds in his or her hand a weighted line while trolling from a boat. To collect the line, the angler uses a jerry-rigged Victrola record player with a spool in…