Tauno Maki brought in a copy of a clipping from the Ely Fish Facts, a summer publication of the old Ely Miner newspap

You kind of just knew it was a matter of time before the fishing turned around and anglers started swamping registrat

Basswood Lake is still the home of the state record northern pike and this week’s entries show the lake is still prod

Peak time. Memorial Day weekend is usually one of the red hot fishing periods every summer.

Even though the weather for the second weekend of the 2005 fishing season wasn’t perfect, Megan and I decided to try

Governor Tim Pawlenty’s 2005 Minnesota Fishing Opener on Lake Vermilion, May 14, was the greatest ever held.

I knew I wasn’t the only one. There were many unnamed anglers who sat out the 2005 Minnesota fishing opener.

The 2005 fishing opener was typical by Minnesota standards: cold, windy, rain and some snow and sleet thrown in for g

As many of us head out onto the water to try our luck at bringing home a walleye dinner, many of us will be joined by

It is probably too early in the season for invertebrates.

The governor will be down the road in Tower, trying his luck in Lake Vermilion.

Next Saturday, when the walleye season opens and all you readers are out on the local lakes, this columnist will be o

Ahh, the fishing opener is finally upon us.

The U. S.

We started off talking business but it didn’t take long before we switched to shack talk.