A case for fishing the Minnesota River — where ‘you never know what you may hook into’

Along its 332-mile journey beginning in Big Stone Lake at the Minnesota-South Dakota border, the Minnesota River bends and snakes its way through farms, forests, fields, and swamps until it meets the Mississippi River south of the Twin Cities near Fort Snelling.
About two-thirds of its way to the Mighty Mississippi, the Minnesota flows through the rural countryside and tangled bottomlands near Henderson, Blakeley, Belle Plaine, Jordan, and Chaska, and for more than 60 years, Dave Wagner has been walking its banks and dropping a line into its water.

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