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 ...

According to preliminary results from a winter creel survey conducted by the Minnesota DNR, anglers logged just over 2 million hours of fishing pressure on the big lake during the winter of 2024-25.

Here is the weekly report from Department of Natural Resources conservation officers in northwest Minnesota and adjacent areas of northern Minnesota for Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. CO Ben Huener (Roseau) ...

Hot jig colors this week include orange/chartreuse, gold/orange or solid gold combined with pink, and glow white.

BAUDETTE, Minn. - An investigation into guided fishing operations on Lake of the Woods has resulted in charges against 12 people, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported. According to ...

Recent wind has made fishing a lot harder and has kept many folks off the area lakes. If you're using pitching jigs, you get that bow in your line and it makes feeling a bite much more difficult.

LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. – The 3½-pound smallmouth bass smacked a tube jig on his very first cast, and during one stretch on this picture-perfect September day, it looked as if Ben Barrus might just ...

Pine and Curry Island on Lake of the Woods is a Minnesota DNR-designated Scientific and Natural Area that provides habitat for the piping plover, a state endangered and federally threatened species, ...

Sep. 27—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 ...

Deputies from the Lake of the Woods County Sheriff's Office responded to the lake around 3:40 p.m. on Saturday following a ...