TOWER, Minn. ­– With a lively campfire cradled in a jumble of rocks at the very edge of Lake Vermilion, Nick Beaudette and Moose Hultman opened their fishing season just minutes after the stroke of ...

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 ...

ON LAKE VERMILION - Doggone if Jim Charles wasn’t latched onto another walleye. At 93, he hasn’t lost the touch. He played the modest walleye to the boat, where his friend and Lake Vermilion fishing ...

It is far too early to hang up the rods and reels or begin to winterize your boat and motor. Fall fishing in Minnesota is one of the best times of the year to be on the water in search of big fish. It ...

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 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.

Corey Kitzmann of Davenport, Iowa, now holds Minnesota’s state record for a catch-and-release muskellunge: a 57¼-inch monster caught on Lake Vermilion earlier this month. Corey Kitzmann of Davenport, ...

TOWER, Minn. - Jim Charles of Tower served with the Navy in the Atlantic during World War II, patrolling for enemy submarines. Bob Skare, who lives on Lake Vermilion, worked in counterintelligence for ...

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, ...

Not good news for Lake Vermilion: state officials have confirmed the popular northern Minnesota lake is infested with spiny waterfleas. An invasive species native to Europe and Asia, spiny waterfleas ...