Outdoors columnist Dennis Anderson and writer Tony Kennedy answered a variety of questions related to Minnesota’s 2025 fishing opener on Wednesday afternoon, including shiner bait, fishing just after ...

RED WING — For tens of thousands of years, fish have been attracted to an area for better food, water or protection and fishermen have been attracted to that area for the fish. Simple, obvious, ...

The fluctuating ice on Central Minnesota lakes is creating challenges for anglers, yet walleye fishing on Red Lake thrives, ...

Every year since 1986 – good weather and bad – Tim Lyon has tested the waters of Lake of the Woods or Rainy River on the Minnesota Fishing Opener. A charter boat driver for Ballard’s Resort on the ...

The Minnesota DNR is considering reducing the statewide walleye possession limit from six to four fish. The proposal aims to maintain quality walleye fishing amid changing lake conditions and ...

A new study finds walleye in the Mississippi River are consistently exposed to emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals. But the chemicals are apparently not affecting reproduction of the state's ...

It’s time to go fishing! The 2025 fishing season is in full swing with anglers from across the region gearing up for what promises to be another incredible year of walleye fishing in the Downriver ...

Right now, it can seem as if every fishing boat in the Northwest is at Drano Lake, circling the Toilet Bowl for spring Chinook. But there is another hot bite in the Gorge that is not getting as much ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Walleye fishing Minnesota style was on display Saturday as if staged for a Broadway production. Against a sliver of the day’s first light, a cruel northeast wind rolled across ...

Only if President Donald Trump and Gov. Tim Walz squared off over a Department of Natural Resources plan to lower Minnesota’s walleye limit could the proposal be more controversial than it already is.