On Lake of the Woods, though, there’s always the chance of a big walleye. Banish, the youngster in our crew at a mere 30 years old – the rest of us ranged in age from 50 to 68 – found that ...

Anglers try their luck for walleyes on the Rainy River near Baudette, Minn., on Sunday, May 11, 2025, the opening weekend of the 2025 Minnesota fishing season. (Brad Dokken / Forum News Service) ...

On Lake of the Woods, though, there's always the chance of a big walleye. Banish, the youngster in our crew at a mere 30 years old — the rest of us ranged in age from 50 to 68 — found that out ...

Lake of the Woods is 70 miles long, 60 miles wide, and encompasses more than 1,700 square miles. ... The town sits on the Rainy River, which is the border between Minnesota and Ontario.

The Rainy River attracts throngs of anglers each spring when lake sturgeon (and walleyes) leave the sprawling Lake of the Woods and congregate in the Rainy River for their spawning run.

A large percentage of the adult walleyes from 1,679-square-mile Lake of the Woods swim up the Rainy River on their annual spawning run, making them super concentrated.

While not historically encountered on Rainy River or Lake of the Woods, two bowfin — a native fish species in Minnesota — have been sampled in recent DNR surveys, Skoog said.

Before Gregg Hennum sold Sportsman's Lodge in 2021, his family's well-known Lake of the Woods fishing resort maintained a fleet of more than 20 Bombardier snow buses to get anglers to and from the ...

On June 1, 2022, Ranier resident Daryl Waller had to evacuate from the home he had lived in for 18 years. He and his family were among hundreds fighting off the rising water from Rainy Lake.

Thunder Bay—Rainy River is commonly referred to as the "south side riding" within Thunder Bay as it includes the part of the city south of Highway 11/17 and the Harbour Expressway but it also ...

This fall, we spent the day with John N. Maclean—son of Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It—at his family's cabin to talk writing, Hemingway, and fishing.