How to Use lake trout in a Sentence

lake trout

noun
  • Cuts were made instead to plants of brown trout and lake trout.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Here, lake trout have already taken over, and there are few bull trout left.
    — Janine Latus, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
  • But also bad news for lake trout, which relied on the minnows as prey.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • His best story was about a lake trout that broke one of his two-bys in half — over an eight-inch hole.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • In winter months, try your hand at ice fishing for whitefish and lake trout.
    — Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Fishing is good for landlocked salmon, lake trout, white perch, and smallmouth bass.
    — Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2021
  • One of the main reasons for that is the introduction of lake trout to the area.
    — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The group is trying to restore the native trout and stop lake trout from taking over.
    — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
  • That lack of ice tells me the whitefish and lake trout will be biting like mad for the next couple of weeks.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2021
  • The rule sets the daily bag limit at five lake trout and creates a year-round open season.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2021
  • There is nothing quite like lake trout smothered in jalapeño blueberry sauce.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2021
  • In warming inland lakes, too, cold-water fish like lake trout and cisco have less room to live.
    — Jana Hollingsworth, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • Redfish will pummel them, stripers will clobber them, and even deep dwellers like lake trout can’t resist them.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Plump lake trout reigned atop a food web loaded with species such as perch, sturgeon, lake herring, whitefish and chubs.
    — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2011
  • Like many regional dishes (hello, lake trout) the origins of the name are murky.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Here’s an easy-to-make chowder recipe using lake trout for us inland anglers who can’t get their hands on some fresh clams.
    — Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 28 Apr. 2020
  • In terms of forage, lake trout eat cicso, whitefish, and yellow perch.
    — Andrew Pegman, Field & Stream, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The largest of these species is the lake trout, which, like brook trout, are technically in the char family.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
  • At that size the walleye would have had to eat just one more juvenile lake trout to push it into record territory.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
  • All fish caught and not eaten for dinner — expect lake trout, chinook salmon, coho salmon and more — will be packaged to take home.
    — Jessica Colley Clarke, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • By the 1940s, the blood-suckers were killing their hosts—lake trout, lake whitefish, and ciscoes—in droves.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The small fish such as alewife and rainbow smelt are also subject to predation by predator fish such as chinook salmon and lake trout.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the businesses — a pharmacy, a lake trout restaurant, a party store — were missing their roofs.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The total is smaller than last year and the year before that, signaling a decline in the overall number of lake trout.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Over the course of five days, Brian and I hiked some 40 miles and caught (and released) seven lake trout.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
  • Abundant produce thrives in the hearty Midwestern soil, and the lakes teem with whitefish, walleye, perch, and lake trout.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
  • The unseasonable weather above the ice has little effect on the lake trout 18 feet down under.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Stanford, on his first Lake Michigan fishing outing, took the rod and landed an 8-pound lake trout.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • In the small bays along the eastern shore, sheltered from the high winds and pounding seas of the great lake, there is excellent fishing, mostly for lake trout.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Deep trolling or jigging with spoons, tubes, flukes and other minnow-imitating lures — or dead fish — are the best ways to catch lake trout in the summer.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024

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