Leeches can be kept for many weeks in cold water. That is why you buy them in refrigerated containers. Water temperatures between 35 to 40 degrees are ideal. After buying your leeches, most people put ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- While the winter weather is lingering around into late March, there was a reminder this week that the fishing opener is less than two months away. State officials announced ...

LAKE MILLE LACS East: Live-bait rigs or spinner rigs tipped with crawlers and leeches continue to produce walleyes during the morning and afternoon hours on the deep gravel and mud. At night, slip ...

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 ...

BEMIDJI — Leech Lake anglers will be able to keep a wider size range of walleye starting on the 2019 fishing opener, officials announced Monday. “Walleye abundance in Leech Lake is currently at a ...

Chad Boyce inched the hunter-green johnboat along the shoreline of a Back Bay creek. A pair of spider-like arms on the vessel’s bow held wires that dipped into the water. He flipped a switch and ...

When Dane Nelson paddled his kayak onto a Minneapolis city lake June 16, he didn’t know he would catch a 51-inch muskie. But Nelson, of Minneapolis, a long-time muskie angler, thought he might. The ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- The Cass County Sheriff's Office says one fisherman is dead after an incident on Leech Lake. On Sunday at 4:37 p.m., deputies responded to the report of a medical emergency at a ...

Although he was instrumental in getting the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame & Museum built, Mike Leech never thought he would be enshrined there. But of the 90-plus members of the Hall, few were more ...