Also shifting pressure to Mille Lacs perch this winter was the lake’s deadbeat harvest of keeper walleyes, which started last summer. By last fall, anglers had harvested only about a third of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Given recent announcements by the Department of Natural Resources that this summer’s Mille Lacs walleye limit ...

The estimated population of Mille Lacs walleyes was as high as 1.1 million (14 inches or longer) in 2002 but crashed to just 249,000 in 2014 after multiple bad reproduction years, called year classes.

MILLE LACS, Minn. — Mille Lacs Lake resort and business owners and fishermen received some good news Friday as the ice fishing season approaches. The walleye fishing season will open Friday, Dec ...

The biomass of zebra mussels is well over 1,000 times the walleye biomass in Mille Lacs. So all that energy from the zooplankton that would have become forage fish is "locked up" and unusable.

ON MILLE LACS LAKE -- Within moments of dropping a jumbo leech to the bottom of Mille Lacs Lake on Tuesday morning, Steve Fellegy took up slack in his line and set the hook.

Walleye fishing on Mille Lacs Lake is set to begin on May 10, with regulations now approved by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. According to the Minnesota DNR, walleye will be able ...

Mille Lacs Lake no longer might be able to support the bountiful walleye stocks that made the 207-square-mile lake legendary among fishermen, yielded annual hauls of a half-million pounds destined ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Lake Mille Lacs has welcomed fishing enthusiasts for decades, but anglers can now catch and keep one coveted walleye. Anglers on Lake Mille Lacs are easing into fishing ...

Walleye bag limits on two of Minnesota's most popular fishing lakes have been cut back this year, including no keepers on Mille Lacs until at least mid-August. The 2024 open-water regulations for ...

Meanwhile, regarding Mille Lacs walleyes, on March 14 the DNR announced that beginning with the May 10 opener, Mille Lacs anglers can keep two walleyes longer than 17 inches, provided only one is ...