A Nebraska angler was fined almost $1,200 after a 700-mile fishing trip to northern Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods resulted in an over-limit. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conservation officer Robert Gorecki of Baudette was patrolling the nearly 350,000-acre lake on July 31 when he came across James E. Thomsen, 68, of Ashland, Neb. […]
Seven bags of walleye fillets seized in Lake of the Woods over-limit case of James E. Thomsen of Ashland, Nebraska.
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