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 ...

I was on a two-day fishing trip on Leech Lake in north-central Minnesota in late September. Leech Lake is one of the Midwest’s most diverse fisheries. It hosts great populations of walleyes, perch, ...

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 ...

ON LEECH LAKE – A child of Mille Lacs, Steve Fellegy nonetheless was at home on this lake the other evening. A clear blue sky stretched from horizon to horizon and the slightest breeze riffled the ...

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 ...

A proposal to allow anglers on Leech Lake in northwestern Minnesota more opportunity to keep walleye starting in 2019 will be up for consideration by the Department of Natural Resources. “We’ve met or ...

MINNESOTA, USA — Governor Tim Walz, Explore Minnesota Tourism, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released details Thursday on this year's Minnesota Governor's Fishing Opener.