NORTH WEBSTER — If last year was any indication, muskie fishing at Lake Webster should be even better this year. After several years of decline, the muskie population in the 774-acre lake in Kosciusko County is on the rebound. The state’s most popular muskie fishery is showing signs of improving conditions. Jed Pearson, a DNR …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — Like many Hoosiers interested in their genetic ancestry, Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists and Purdue University researchers are looking into the genetic makeup of a species of fish in northern Indiana’s Lake Webster. The results could have a bearing on how muskies, a popular sport fish, might affect the future of …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — Like Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” there’s no place like home for muskies in Lake Webster. DNR biologists say muskies, a large predatory fish, show some affinity to general areas at the 774-acre lake. Their assessment is based on recapture locations of tagged muskies caught each spring during egg-taking operations. “We’ve …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — For the second year in a row, DNR fisheries biologists will tag and release 1,500 1-year-old muskies into Lake Webster to boost the lake’s sagging muskie population. The stocking will happen this month. The fish normally would have been stocked last fall but were held over winter in a pond and fed …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — Despite the low number of adult muskies now present in Lake Webster, DNR fisheries biologists were able to catch enough sexually ripe females this spring to obtain nearly 500,000 eggs. That amount fills the annual quota needed to support Indiana’s muskie stocking program. Biologists captured 88 muskies in trap nets set during …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — A decline in the number of adult muskies at Lake Webster in Kosciusko County has DNR biologists worried about a potential shortage of eggs to use in the state’s muskie stocking program. Traditionally, Lake Webster is where biologists have caught adult female muskies to harvest eggs for Fawn River State Fish Hatchery …read more.

NORTHERN INDIANA — The list of northern Indiana waters where muskies can now be found continues to expand — a trend DNR biologists say is not necessarily a good thing. Although muskie fingerlings are stocked each year into eight lakes in the region to provide muskie fishing, muskies are now showing up in waters where …read more.