WALKER, Minn. -- Chip Leer remembers the Minnesota walleye opener in 2002 or 2003 when he joined some of the area's top anglers to test the waters of Leech Lake. There were four boats of anglers, he ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — MN-FISH is funding a critical Leech Lake muskie movement and survival study set to begin this spring, the state fishing organization said in a news release. According to Ron ...

Walker, Minn. - Chip Leer remembers the Minnesota walleye opener in 2002 or 2003 when he joined some of the area's top anglers to test the waters of Leech Lake. There were four boats of anglers, he ...

WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...

Leech Lake legend Al Maas, positive despite paralysis, fishes on. 'Fishing has no better friend' A 2019 stroke and accident left him almost entirely paralyzed, but 85-year-old Al Maas, a longtime ...

No Section Releasing trophy fish is reward enough for some Minnesota anglers, record or no record Leech Lake’s “Muskie Rampage” in 1955 was a turning point that ushered in a new ethic among Minnesota ...

WALKER — Easton Fothergill became a hometown champ of sorts Sunday by winning the St. Croix Bassmaster Open at Leech Lake, his second first-place finish on this year’s pro bass fishing circuit after ...

The third-largest lake contained wholly within Minnesota’s borders, Leech as a walleye destination has been up and down in the past decade or so. In the early 2000s, the lake’s bread-and-butter fish — ...