As wind and snow blew hard across White Bear Lake on Dec. 31, Mark Walker was keeping to his winter clock. This time of year, ...

There’s been quite a bit of activity on area lakes, especially between Christmas and New Year's Day. We have excellent ice ...

Hello folks, the other day we went ice fishing on some local ice aiming to catch some bluegills and perch. We geared up with tiny hooks, tiny pieces of cut minnow, little jigging spoons, and even ...

Small ponds will be ice-fishing magnets for panfish, and bluegills and crappie should be biting on small jigs and maggots.

Alan Bland shows a Beaver Lake crappie he caught May 2 from the Pine Creek arm on the upstream end of the reservoir. The fish ...

Also know that this outcome will spook any approaching fish for a while. Back-bays have had a few crappies, big sunfish, and ...

By Al Raychard Our kind and generous outdoors editor, Susan Bard, recently asked if I do any early season ice fishing for ...

The clinic will provide both seasoned anglers and those who have never fished before with hands-on instruction.

A few days later I went all in. Anticipating two more days of fishing with extended family, I was determined to test hot dogs ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.