fishing

MINNEISKA, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say two people survived a close call when their boat got too close to a dam on the Mississippi River near Winona.

BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The Gull Lake Dam and Recreation Area in northern Minnesota has reopened for the first time since it was damaged in a summer storm that swept the Brainerd Lakes area 10 months ago.

BAUDETTE, Minn. (AP) — Authorities confirm that a body recovered from Lake of the Woods near the Canadian border is that of a third boater from Minnesota who went missing last October.

St. Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - The walleye season this year at one of Minnesota’s most popular lakes will be catch and release only.

Brainerd, MN(KROC-AM News) -   More than 9,000 people turned out for the annual Brainerd Jaycees ice fishing contest on Gull Lake that was held on Saturday.

BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A trial for a Minnesota man accused of fatally stabbing a fisherman on the St. Croix River is set to begin this week in Wisconsin.

St Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - Hugo artist Nicholas Markell has won the 2016 Minnesota Walleye Stamp contest.

Baudette, MN (Minnesota News Network) -  Police in Lake of the Woods County are searching for three men whose boat was found capsized on the lake Saturday.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's wildlife officials are making sweeping changes at Mille Lacs Lake to restore trust with locals after shutting down the lake's walleye fishing season.

St Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - Governor Mark Dayton is seriously considering calling lawmakers back to the Capitol next month for a special session. Not because of concerns over transportation, health care or bird flu  - but because of an issue dealing with Minnesota’s most popular fish.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Some commercial fishing operations have been temporarily halted on Lake Pepin following the discovery of nearly four dozen dead paddlefish and lake sturgeon.

PONSFORD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a Nebraska man who died after falling out of a boat while fishing on a lake in northern Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Fisheries managers have imposed the tightest restrictions yet for the upcoming season on Mille Lacs Lake, allowing anglers to keep only one walleye instead of two.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Spring cleaning has arrived for ice houses in southern Minnesota.