Yellow bass fishery developing a legion of angling fans in southern Minnesota
It’s not every day that a new fishery develops, but southern Minnesota anglers have been buzzing about an exploding yellow bass population in the Fairmont area in recent years.
“They showed up (in the Fairmont chain of lakes) first in 2012, caught by an ice angler,” said Nate Hodgins, assistant area DNR fisheries supervisor in the Windom office.
Hodgins said the fish likely were stocked illegally by area anglers. He said they could have come from the Iowa Great Lakes, which are relatively close by and where the species is native.
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