Baudette area: Anglers on the Rainy River are catching saugers and walleyes, especially during morning and evening hours. On the south end of Lake of the Woods, anglers continue to find good walleye ...

ELY, Minn.-It took all of about 15 seconds for things to get exciting on a recent Tuesday morning."Someone want to get that?" Steve Foss asked as the fishing rod bounced to the beat of a lake trout ...

Brainerd area: Walleyes have been active on mid-lake humps of area lakes, according to Visit Brainerd. Bass, crappies and northerns are in bays. Sunfish and walleyes are near weed flats and weed edges ...

Claire Sebald holds (while Salmon the wirehair griffon sniffs) a 30-inch lake trout caught with the author near Ely, Minn.