The six-year average winter harvest on Lake of the Woods is 190,000 pounds for walleyes and 289,000 pounds for saugers, based on statistics from previous DNR winter creel surveys.

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 remains a destination for northern pike. The 30- to 40-inch protected slot limit helps turn big fish into the giants for which the lake is known.

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 ...

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 ...

With 60 rental ice fishing houses on Lake of the Woods this winter, and about 35 miles of ice roads to plow, Brian Ney knew that he and his crew of eight would be busy last Sunday. Ney's family ...

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 ...

Frey’s drowning is the second ice-related death this winter in Minnesota. An Osage man, 67, died after breaking through the ice with his ATV on Big Toad Lake, east of Detroit Lakes. Authorities ...

More than 120 ice fishers were rescued in Minnesota Friday after they became stranded on a large sheet of ice that had drifted out into a lake. Emergency responders in Beltrami County, Minnesota ...