Once a popular destination for opening-day walleye anglers, Leech Lake on Saturday will be strangely quiet, its resorts half filled, launch boats docked and guides booked elsewhere. Walleye fishing on ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- While the winter weather is lingering around into late March, there was a reminder this week that the fishing opener is less than two months away. State officials announced ...

Bemidji area: Bass fishing has been good on area lakes and some walleyes are being caught on Lake Bemidji, according to guide (and running legend) Dick Beardsley. Anglers on Cass Lake, east of Bemidji ...

WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

For the first time in its 74-year history, the Minnesota Governor’s Fishing Opener was held in partnership with a tribal government. Hosted by the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the event celebrated not ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Seventy years ago this month, Leech Lake muskies went crazy. Until that time, the big silvery fish barely gained notice from most of the lake’s anglers. Instead, walleyes were the lake’s ...

Seventy years ago this month, Leech Lake muskies went crazy. Until that time, the big silvery fish barely gained notice from most of the lake’s anglers. Instead, walleyes were the lake’s major ...