Rainy Lake and the International Falls and Ranier area will be featured on the “Fishing the Midwest” television show this weekend. The show was taped last July and features host Bob Jensen fishing ...

A new, improved 84-foot fishing pier has been installed on Tilson Bay on Rainy Lake in northern Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said. The pier, installed by staff from the ...

Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on the lake. "This guy walked up ...

A Rainy Lake fishing trip has been a tradition for our group for more than 15 years. Although we go into the event with the mindset that every year is going to be a little different, with the historic ...

RAINY LAKE, ONTARIO — Rainy Lake is a mood, journalist Ted Hall noted many years ago, and for a couple days this week, it was inspiring and reassuring for me and two old friends. It was a much-needed ...

Hundreds of thousands of sandbags are protecting homes and businesses along the shore of Rainy Lake, as residents and Koochiching County officials brace for the lake to rise perhaps another half-foot ...

Rainy Lake officially crested Monday, and is expected to begin receding between now and June 20, barring no severe weather events. With a decrease in demand for sandbags over the last week, active ...

BAUDETTE, Minn. — If the walleyes didn’t cooperate on this sunny Saturday morning, the opening day of Minnesota’s 2025 fishing season, it certainly wouldn’t be because of the weather. Morning temps in ...

Want to catch a freshwater fish over 100 pounds? Learn where, when, and how to catch lake sturgeon in Wisconsin, Minnesota & Michigan. / Joe Shead A lot of anglers in the Upper Great Lakes Areas covet ...

May 17—NEAR BAUDETTE, Minn. — At first glance, it looked as if the boy fishing off the dock last Sunday at Ballard's Resort near the mouth of the Rainy River was hopelessly snagged. His fishing rod ...

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on ...

Rainy Lake fishing guide Billy Dougherty holds a hefty northern pike he caught on the lake. On Friday, March 23, 2018, Dougherty will be inducted into the Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame. This summer ...