The bite is on, and anglers are boating good numbers of walleyes and saugers daily, Lake of the Woods Tourism reports in its weekly update. Pulling spinners with crawlers and trolling crankbaits in ...

Like any cop making a traffic stop, Ben Huener was alert when he and another Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer, Coby Fontes, approached a fishing boat recently while ...

The survey tallied an average of 15.5 walleyes and 16 saugers per gill net. That’s down slightly from the historic average of ...

Brainerd area: Walleyes have been active on mid-lake humps of area lakes, according to Visit Brainerd. Bass, crappies and northerns are in bays. Sunfish and walleyes are near weed flats and weed edges ...

BAUDETTE, Minn. – If the walleyes didn’t cooperate on this sunny Saturday morning, the opening day of Minnesota’s 2025 fishing season, it certainly wouldn’t be because of the weather. Morning temps in ...

The best action remains in 15-25 feet of water. The water temperature has dropped to 42 degrees, and the fish are active.

Jeff Anderson, general manager of Border View Lodge in Baudette, joins us over Zoom to share his professional experience on what makes fishing Lake of the Woods such a unique experience. Anderson ...

May 10—Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, fishing pressure this past winter on Lake of the Woods didn't set a record, despite ideal ice conditions and marginal snow cover that made it easy to get around.

There is no better illustration of the north-south latitude variance in Minnesota during the start of a Super El Nino winter than what everyone has experienced in this December. In southern Minnesota, ...

Walleye and sauger populations continue to thrive in Lake of the Woods, based on results from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' annual September survey. That came as no surprise, said Tom ...

Do you have an opinion about how Lake of the Woods is being managed? Is the season too long? Are anglers keeping too many small fish? Is there too much winter fishing pressure? Should limits be ...