When walleye season opens next week, it will mark the 15th consecutive month that Matt Gutchess has fished Oneida Lake from his boat, thanks to record-breaking winter temperatures that all but ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Many decades ago, the Maumee and Sandusky rivers would be crowded with wading walleye fishermen at this time of year. Unless an especially frigid winter covered Lake Erie with thick ...

There’s probably been no better time to catch walleyes in Lake Erie or the Three Rivers of Pittsburgh than this year and into 2025. “Fishing this year was absolutely phenomenal. One of the highest ...

The calendar suggests we are still weeks away from safe ice on most lakes across Minnesota, but the DNR knows ice anglers across the state are already chomping at the bit. When the lakes are solid and ...

Feb. 10—ON LAKE WINNIPEG, Manitoba — We'd barely gotten set up, and I didn't even have a line in the water yet, when Jim Stinson hooked up on the kind of fish that draws anglers to Lake Winnipeg in ...

Traveling in winter isn’t always fun. You’ve got to worry about flight delays, blizzards, icy roads, and wind. None of those things, however, are in your control, so you shouldn’t let them sway a ...

The Department of Natural Resources will tighten fishing regulations on Lake Mille Lacs this year in response to a downturn in the lake’s walleye population. DNR fisheries biologists presented the ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. The ...

Anglers may not agree on everything when it comes to bait and tackle, but many agree that one of the top lakes for hooking a walleye is Lake Erie. Field and Stream rated this lake the number one spot ...