Lake of the Woods is 70 miles long, 60 miles wide, and encompasses more than 1,700 square miles. It's a fishing haven for anglers that produces world-class walleye and sauger all year long, as ...

Joe Banish of Grand Forks, N.D., caught this 27½-inch walleye Saturday, May 10, 2025, the opening day of Minnesota’s 2025 fishing season, on Lake of the Woods near Baudette, Minn.

Jerry Keith Buhr, 67, of Osage, Minnesota, was found with his ATV upside-down and having drowned in about 4 to 5 feet of water on Dec. 23 on Big Toad Lake, the Becker County Sheriff's Office said ...

The Lake of the Woods County Sheriff's Office says it was notified of a possible drowning at the Northwest Angle near Flag Island on Lake of the Woods shortly after 8 a.m. The Minnesota Bureau of ...

In the vast inland ocean that is Lake of the Woods, 14-year-old Connor Halsa somehow hooked a wallet full of money lost by an Iowa farmer a year earlier.

Dec. 28 - A vehicle used to transport ice-fishers crashed through the ice on Lake of the Woods, killing one man. Dec. 23 - A man was found on Big Toad Lake with his ATV upside-down and having ...

BAUDETTE, Minn. — The wet spring was not kind to resorts on Lake of the Woods. The owner of Bugsy's on Bostic said they've had to take on rising water for almost 50 days, and she and her staff ...

May 10—Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, fishing pressure this past winter on Lake of the Woods didn't set a record, despite ideal ice conditions and marginal snow cover that made it easy to get ...

Lake of the Woods: Anglers looking for walleyes are having success on the south end of the lake, especially in depths of 7 to 25 feet. On the Rainy River, walleyes are being found in their normal ...

According to Minnesota Department of Revenue data, the number of family-owned resorts in Minnesota continues to shrink, from more than 3,000 in the 1960s to 646 in 2021.