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 spring walleye season closed April 14 with a bang as the water in the Rainy River cleared up, and anglers again started catching walleyes and saugers of all sizes, Lake of the Woods Tourism ...

Friday is the last day of spring walleye fishing on Lake of the Woods, Rainy River and other Minnesota-Ontario border waters until the May 13 walleye opener. As of early this week, Lake of the Woods ...

I got a good laugh the other morning while scrolling through the Northern Light Region, a fine weekly newspaper in Baudette, Minnesota. There on the front page was a headline that read, "PETA Proposes ...

Baudette area: On the south end of Lake of the Woods, anglers are finding a good sauger and walleye bite. Anglers near the Northwest Angle are finding a good bite for a variety of fish, including bass ...

If you're an angler, every nerve in your body begins to tingle at this time of year. You, for some reason, keep checking the calendar and automatically check off days leading up to the middle of May.

Consider this your fishing update for midsummer — a time when, paradoxically, Minnesota fish-catching generally falls off, particularly for walleyes, but more people go fishing. The latter is due to ...

Mille Lacs Lake walleye fishing will be catch-and-release during the spring and early summer of 2024, with the potential to harvest a walleye 21-23 inches in length or greater than 28 inches starting ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. The ...