This summer, when the DNR shut down the walleye season on Lake Mille Lacs, the move sparked a crisis in the area's resort economy and an uproar in the angling community. What exactly is it about ...

May 12—WILLMAR — For many walleye anglers, the compass always points north to destinations from Mille Lacs to Lake of the Woods. Staying close to home in the Spicer and Willmar area, or venturing ...

May 13—GRAND FORKS — Minnesota's fishing season opens Saturday, May 14, and anglers by the thousands will hit their favorite lake or river in pursuit of walleyes, northern pike, bass and trout in ...

For the first time since 1956, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which oversees fishing and hunting in the state ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is considering a reduction in the statewide walleye possession limit for the ...

ST. PAUL - Walleye fishing on Lake Mille Lacs will remain closed longer than originally planned because the state has killed too many fish this year, officials said Friday, July 21. Walleye fishing ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Of all the fish to call Lake Mille Lacs home, only one is honored with such grand stature along its shore: the walleye. So why is the walleye Minnesota's most popular fish? WCCO ...

Christopher Rounds is a scientist who studies walleye in Minnesota, but he doesn't use a boat or a net or even a laboratory.

Anglers are never far from a lake where they can catch walleye in Minnesota. Fish stocking keeps it that way. Stocking walleyes involves taking eggs from waters that have reproducing walleye ...

HERMANTOWN — Minnesota's most famous walleye, the largest one ever confirmed caught on hook and line, is headed back to Saganaga Lake at the end of the Gunflint Trail where it spent its natural life.

Sometimes, less walleye stocking is better than too much walleye stocking, at least when it comes to fingerlings, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries officials say. After evaluating ...