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 ...
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. — 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 ...
Leech Lake legend Al Maas, positive despite paralysis, fishes on. 'Fishing has no better friend' A 2019 stroke and accident left him almost entirely paralyzed, but 85-year-old Al Maas, a longtime ...
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 — ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Cass County Deputy Sheriff Bob Landreville and veteran fishing guide Dan Craven refer to their beloved Leech Lake as the mother of all Minnesota muskie lakes. At a fishing forum ...
DULUTH, Minn. - "Slot limit" used to be a dirty word. Or two words. Nobody was keen on the idea of putting back walleyes that otherwise might have wound up in a frying pan. Deer River, Minn., fishing ...
If Spiderman was a fisherman, his walleye senses would be absolutely tingling with anticipation at the prospect of wetting a line Saturday.It's the Minnesota walleye opener, and as events on the ...