ON LAKE VERMILION, Minn.—”Musky” Tom Wehler lives on an island on Lake Vermilion just to be close to this kind of fishing action. The fishing guide was working a Bull Dawg lure in a sandy bay when a ...

The pandemic push of more people fishing on northern Minnesota lakes, especially with Canadian lakes still off-limits, has spurred the Vermilion Lake Association to ask anglers to keep fewer fish this ...

Fishing restrictions on Lake Vermilion could be relaxed for next year in light of several indicators that the lake's walleye population is healthy and growing. "The news is good,'' said Edie Evarts, ...

"Fishing has been better this year than in several years," Wagenbach said. The eastern basin of this sprawling lake tends to hold more eating-size fish, where the west end holds more big walleyes.

TOWER, Minn. -- Dennis Highby eased his big Warrior fishing boat toward shore along Pine Island on Lake Vermilion and soon had hooked his first fish of the 2015 walleye fishing season. "Pretty little, ...