Ice fishing is underway, and many resorts have fish houses out with others watching ice conditions where they fish, Lake of the Woods Tourism reports in its weekly update. Subzero temperatures are ...

Most open water anglers have put away their boats for the season and are looking forward to ice fishing, Lake of the Woods Tourism reported Monday in its weekly update. Ice is forming on back bays ...

May 7—As expected, ice fishing pressure was high again this past winter on Lake of the Woods, but a sudden end to winter kept it from being a record, results from a Minnesota Department of ...

Jan. 19—News of another surprise catch on Lake of the Woods hit my inbox Wednesday afternoon, when I opened the weekly update from Sportsman's Oak Island Lodge on Minnesota's Northwest Angle ...

The sun rises over Lake of the Woods during the unseasonably warm December of 2023. Despite a late start, the lake is now taking off with exceptional ice angling.

BAUDETTE, Minn. -- Anglers again this past winter spent nearly 2 million hours ice fishing on Lake of the Woods, results from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' winter creel survey show.

The incident remains under investigation, the sheriff’s office said. Thursday’s drowning on Lake of the Woods is the second ice fishing-related death to occur in Minnesota so far this winter.

Thin ice, the bane of ice anglers in much of the state this less-than-frigid winter, never crosses the minds of the throngs who converge each winter on Lake of the Woods, 600 miles to the north.

Authorities have not released the name of the man who apparently drowned Thursday in a Lake of the Woods ice- fishing accident in northern Minnesota.

BAUDETTE, Minn. -- It"s no secret that the walleye fishing is great through the ice on Lake of the Woods.

It was Monday, Oct. 7, the first morning of a “Wings and Walleyes” hunting and fishing event that brought a small crew of media from the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers — AGLOW ...

The last fatal accident on Lake of the Woods involving a commercial transport vehicle during an ice fishing run was 1996, Colson said.