WALKER, Minn. -- Chip Leer remembers the Minnesota walleye opener in 2002 or 2003 when he joined some of the area's top anglers to test the waters of Leech Lake. There were four boats of anglers, he ...

Bemidji area: Bass fishing has been good on area lakes and some walleyes are being caught on Lake Bemidji, according to guide (and running legend) Dick Beardsley. Anglers on Cass Lake, east of Bemidji ...

These days, Leech Lake is back and so are the anglers, thanks to an ongoing recovery program the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources implemented in 2005. The walleyes might not always bite, but ...

Walker, Minn. - Chip Leer remembers the Minnesota walleye opener in 2002 or 2003 when he joined some of the area's top anglers to test the waters of Leech Lake. There were four boats of anglers, he ...

The third-largest lake contained wholly within Minnesota’s borders, Leech as a walleye destination has been up and down in the past decade or so. In the early 2000s, the lake’s bread-and-butter fish — ...

WALKER -Larry Anderson scooped the 21-inch walleye from the waters of Leech Lake, measured it in a homemade trough and returned it to the water. It was 7 p.m. on a Wednesday in August. Near Anderson's ...

I was on a two-day fishing trip on Leech Lake in north central Minnesota in late September. Leech Lake is one of the Midwest’s most diverse fisheries. It hosts great populations of walleyes, perch, ...

WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

Minnesota’s greatest mystery isn’t whether the Kensington Runestone is authentic (would a guy named Olof Ohman fib?), whether Marjorie Caldwell masterminded the murder of Duluth heiress Elizabeth ...

The crew salvaged the day by loading up the boats and heading for a lake near Bemidji, where they caught their limit of walleyes in a matter of hours. The next year, Leer said, boat ramps on Leech ...