DETROIT — Five fishermen found themselves in hot water after taking more than their legal limit of walleye from the Detroit River, officials said.

The group from northern Michigan was caught Friday after fishing on the river near Milliken State Park, east of downtown on Atwater Street near Orleans, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan hunters in the Lower Peninsula will only be allowed to kill one buck starting in March 2027, the state commission that sets hunting and fishing rules declared Wednesday.

The change is in service of efforts to control the booming deer population in southern Michigan, where some communities have resorted to culling ...Read more

An experienced North Carolina angler died for reasons unknown after he fell overboard at a bass tournament in western Tennessee, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

The body of 36-year-old Alexander C. Luster of Boone was recovered late Friday from Watauga Lake, the TWRA said in a May 9 news release.

An autopsy will be ...Read more

CRANE LAKE, MINN. — Few anglers who wet a line in this picturesque northern border lake on Saturday had time to consider whether fishing is a sport or something more akin to a religious experience. Having pulled on every hooded coat and pair of coveralls they brought with them on this first day of the state’s inland fishing season, they were...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — More Minnesota young people are fishing the state’s lakes and rivers.

Considering the post-pandemic drop in license sales to young anglers — and overall — the uptick is positive news and an encouraging sign as the 2026 season opens.

About 111,000 licenses were bought by people ages 16 to 20 in 2025, an increase of more ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The most famous Minnesota invention was not water skis (1922). Nor was it packaged cake mix (1947), crisp crust frozen pizza (1979) or even Post-it notes (1980). It was the Lindy Rig, which doubtless has brought more thrills to more people in more places than any of the state’s many other innovations, including the pop-up ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Growing up in northern Minnesota, Nathan Stanelle spent plenty of time fishing on Lake of the Woods. The lake is known as the Walleye Capital of the World, but fish weren’t the only thing Stanelle remembers reeling in.

“We would pull up some weeds and we would always joke we have our ‘salad’ for the meal,” Stanelle ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Fascinated from childhood about colors, and particularly about the coloring of duck feathers, wildlife artist David Maass was never more at home than in a waterfowl blind. It was there that the tawny hues of marsh grass often blended with the foreboding grays of an autumn sky to frame an incoming squadron of bluebills or ...Read more