BAUDETTE - This ice-fishing season, it has seemed very much like a foreign land. Yes, Lake of the Woods sometimes feels far away, far removed. And, depending on your whereabouts on the American side, ...

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BAUDETTE, Minn. — Nick Painovich ends most days the same way, whacking squirming walleye in the head with a pair of pliers. Painovich owns Zippel Bay Resort on the southern shore of Lake of the Woods.

BAUDETTE, Minn. – If the walleyes didn’t cooperate on this sunny Saturday morning, the opening day of Minnesota’s 2025 fishing season, it certainly wouldn’t be because of the weather. Morning temps in ...

If you're an angler, every nerve in your body begins to tingle at this time of year. You, for some reason, keep checking the calendar and automatically check off days leading up to the middle of May.

Jan. 19—News of another surprise catch on Lake of the Woods hit my inbox Wednesday afternoon, when I opened the weekly update from Sportsman's Oak Island Lodge on Minnesota's Northwest Angle.

Dec. 14—They may not always bite, but populations of "eater-size" walleyes and saugers in Lake of the Woods look good going into the winter season, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. – The Zippel Bay area of Lake of the Woods has a well-deserved reputation for big northern pike, but 10-year-old Leah Saffert and her dad, Jamie, weren’t prepared for the fish ...

Sitting over an 8-inch hole on a one-million-acre lake does give an angler an incredibly wide range of potential outcomes, although none are guaranteed to you. This is the draw that is Lake of the ...