Ice anglers on Lake Vermilion may be asked to participate in the lake’s first winter creel survey since 1984. Creel clerks from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will be traveling the lake ...

ON LAKE VERMILION, Minn.—”Musky” Tom Wehler lives on an island on Lake Vermilion just to be close to this kind of fishing action. The fishing guide was working a Bull Dawg lure in a sandy bay when a ...

The pandemic push of more people fishing on northern Minnesota lakes, especially with Canadian lakes still off-limits, has spurred the Vermilion Lake Association to ask anglers to keep fewer fish this ...

"Fishing has been better this year than in several years," Wagenbach said. The eastern basin of this sprawling lake tends to hold more eating-size fish, where the west end holds more big walleyes.

"We're building a campground!" Christa Maxwell said as we drove past piles of gravel and muddy lanes. "Right there!" At the top of Minnesota, just southwest of the Boundary Waters, the clear, crystal ...