GRAND RAPIDS - The cold spell had broken on Wednesday. Justin Bailey figured the bluegills would be chomping again on Split Hand Lake south of Grand Rapids. He dropped the transducer of his Vexilar ...

They are among the smallest to swim in Wisconsin waters. But panfish have an outsized importance to our state's fisheries and anglers. And human anglers catch and keep more panfish than any other ...

If you enjoy catching large bluegills through the ice, there is such a place right in Siouxland. It's West Lake Okoboji, the Iowa Great Lakes gem which year after year produces the finest fishing in ...

Researchers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' Lake City office surveyed four area lakes -- Silver Lake in Rochester, two reservoirs of Willow Creek in and around Rochester, and Lake ...

Flip Putthoff/NWA Democrat-Gazette Bruce Darr isn’t a fishing guide, but he caught this dandy striped bass on a fly rod in ...

A dandy trail for hiking circles a little lake that's darned good for fishing. Lake Wilson in south Fayetteville is a scenic, 28-acre oval of pretty water that's the centerpiece of Lake Wilson Park.

Most of us find the favorite bluegill easier to find, but in the south the favorite is crappie, not bluegill. The bluegill is the propionate panfish locally and no one complains. Crappies, especially ...

And two — and more relevant to today's discussion — why was the walleye chosen instead of the crappie? Or, for that matter, the "sunfish,'' a catch-all term that in Minnesota includes green sunfish, ...

While water levels are slightly off from normal, the fisheries throughout southeastern North Dakota are in excellent shape ...

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Minnesota fishing expert Tony Mariotti from Detroit Lakes joins podcast host Mike McFeely to talk ice fishing. The lakes are fairly quiet, but as March approaches the panfish bite is improving rapidly ...