
Ice fishing tip: Using spoons to catch more late-season panfish
Small spoons tipped with plastics, worms, or minnow heads and tails will attract more perch, crappies, and sunfish thus boosting your odds of catching more fish.

Small spoons tipped with plastics, worms, or minnow heads and tails will attract more perch, crappies, and sunfish thus boosting your odds of catching more fish.

Ice reports continue to improve across the states, along with reports of fishing successes.

With ice conditions slowly improving, hard-water fishing opportunities continue to expand across the state.

Ross Lake serves up a mixed bag of angling opportunities ranging from perch, bluegills and sunfish to largemouth bass, northern pike and catfish. And don’t forget about those crappies – mostly blacks, but a few

Minnesota takes the lead in trying to increase the number of big panfish swimming its freshwater lakes.

The fishing outlook for Lake Erie continues to show boating anglers catching limits of walleyes in the Western Basin through the Central Basin all the way to Cleveland. On inland lakes, anglers are doing well

Both reservoirs are stocked with yellow perch and channel catfish, and No. 1 gets hit every year with a slug of rainbow trout.

Martina Drugovich didn’t expect to land a state record fish on her first-ever day as an ice angler. Armed with a new fishing license and brand new ice fishing traps, she was just hoping to

Check out this in-depth, deep-dive look into targeting perch with Tony Roach and Cody Roswick, who talk perch tips and strategies in both Minnesota and the Dakota in this Angling Buzz video.
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