After years of contemplating a reduction in Minnesota’s longtime, six-walleye daily bag limit, the Department of Natural Resources is moving to lower it to four. State Fisheries Chief Brad Parsons ...

May 2—Every year since 1986 — good weather and bad — Tim Lyon has tested the waters of Lake of the Woods or Rainy River on the Minnesota Fishing Opener. A charter boat driver for Ballard's Resort on ...

Jul. 1—ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is seeking public input on a proposal to reduce the statewide walleye limit from six fish to four, the agency said Monday, June 30. In a ...

With clear skies for the pheasant opener, southwestern Minnesota saw a successful weekend for hunters, while duck and goose ...

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 ...

MILLE LACS – For fishing, nothing beats a big pontoon boat bathed in floodlights and loaded with anglers, bobbing at night on the calm waters of Mille Lacs Lake. There's food. There's probably beer.

The Minnesota fishing opener is just hours away, and thousands of anglers are expected to make their way to the state's lakes and rivers. Fishing opener weekend begins in the kitchen at Appeldoorn's ...

DNR fisheries staff point to the lakes holding the best numbers of walleye and northern pike in southwest and south-central Minnesota. A Minnesota angler holds a walleye before releasing it. Area ...

“Fishing for walleye, eating walleye — it’s secular communion. It affirms your identity as a Minnesotan,” Karal Ann Marling, professor emerita at the University of Minnesota has said. Walleye, ...

RED WING — For tens of thousands of years, fish have been attracted to an area for better food, water or protection and fishermen have been attracted to that area for the fish. Simple, obvious, ...