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 ...

During the winter of 2022-23, for example, anglers logged an estimated 3.2 million hours of fishing pressure on Lake of the Woods, based on results from a DNR winter creel survey, compared with ...